Best big-picture article I saw on it last night was
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/get-ampd-heres-what-publishers-need-to-know-about-googles-new-plan-to-speed-up-your-website/
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Jon Katz <jk...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FYI. Google just announced an open source project to create a speedier
> framework for mobile browsing. It might be worth looking at what they're
> doing:
>
> From:
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/08/035200/googles-effort-to-speed-up-the-mobile-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
>
>
> Google has officially taken the wraps off its AMP project — Accelerated
> Mobile Pages <https://www.ampproject.org/> — which aims to speed up the
> delivery of web content to mobile devices
> <https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/>. They say, "We began to
> experiment with an idea: could we develop a restricted subset of the things
> we'd use from HTML, that's both fast and expressive, so that documents
> would always load and render with reliable performance?" That subset is now
> encapsulated in AMP, their proof-of-concept. They've posted the code to
> GitHub <https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml> and they're asking for
> help from the open source community to flesh it out. Their conclusions are
> familiar to the Slashdot crowd: "One thing we realized early on is that
> many performance issues are caused by the integration of multiple
> JavaScript libraries, tools, embeds, etc. into a page. This isn't saying
> that JavaScript immediately leads to bad performance, but once arbitrary
> JavaScript is in play, most bets are off because anything could happen at
> any time and it is hard to make any type of performance guarantee. With
> this in mind we made the tough decision that AMP HTML documents would not
> include any author-written JavaScript, nor any third-party scripts."
> They're seeing speed boosts anywhere from 15-85%, but they're also looking
> at pre-rendering options to make some content capable of loading
> instantaneously. Their FAQ <https://www.ampproject.org/faq/> has a few
> more details.
>
> Google blog announcement:
>
> https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/introducing-accelerated-mobile-pages.html
>
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