{"id":341370,"date":"2017-05-19T03:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1493218"},"modified":"2017-05-19T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:40:57","slug":"googles-amp-now-powers-2b-mobile-pages-and-900k-domains-loads-2x-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-amp-now-powers-2b-mobile-pages-and-900k-domains-loads-2x-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AMP now powers 2B+ mobile pages and 900K domains, loads 2x faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Google looks for ways to keep\u00a0people using its own mobile search to discover content \u2014 in competition with apps and other services like Facebook\u2019s Instant Articles \u2014 the company is announcing some updates to AMP, its collaborative project to speed up mobile web pages.<\/p>\n

Today at the Google I\/O developer conference, Google announced that there are now over 2 billion AMP pages covering some 900,000 domains. These pages also also\u00a0loading twice as fast<\/a> as before via Google Search, and that the AMP network is now expanding to more e-commerce sites and covering more ad formats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The advances serve as a counterbalance to some of the controversy that Google and others have courted through initiatives like this, which are optimised for user experience, but have been criticised<\/a> for pointing people essentially to Google\/Facebook\/other domains and therefore taking traffic away from the sites themselves.<\/p>\n

In a blog post announcing the news \u2014 published on WordPress, possibly to underscore how Google is trying to show this off as\u00a0a collaborative, cross-company initiative? \u2014 Google takes a page from the Amazon school of stats and declines to disclose what the actual page load time is now via Google Search for HTML pages encoded with AMP (short for accelerated mobile pages).<\/p>\n

But it notes that the improvement\u00a0comes from changes that have been made at the backend, specifically with the AMP Cache, reducing bandwidth for images by 50 percent, and implementing a new compression algorithm called Brotli<\/a> that Google announced in 2015 that reduces document size by 10 percent.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0list of sites that support AMP, meanwhile, has now had a massive boost\u00a0with some of the\u00a0latest additions focusing on social networking. Tumblr (which is owned by Yahoo, whose search engine points to AMP pages) is now pushing\u00a0340 million blogs and 500,000 domains to render in AMP on mobile. Twitter is also now linking to AMP pages in mobile web (when you click on links in Tweets), and plans to expand AMP links to its mobile apps soon.\u00a0In\u00a0Asia, Tencent\u2019s Qzone (the largest social network in China) and Weibo (the third largest) now also rendering mobile pages using AMP.<\/p>\n

Now that Google has established the basics of how AMP works for a wide swathe of pages, it looks like it\u2019s stepping up its commercial gears in AMP. Specifically, it\u2019s ramping up the number of e-commerce pages that are using the format, and it\u2019s also expanding the number of ad units that AMP pages will support. These include eBay, which first introduced AMP support on about 15 million pages about a year ago<\/a> and is now expanding to \u201cmillions more<\/a>\u201d including all of its product pages with a specific focus on adding name-brands and \u201cInterest\u201d pages that aim to give users more targeted results rather than a hodge-podge that you might otherwise see on the site.<\/p>\n

Others who are adding AMP include Zalando in Europe, Myntra in India, and AliExpress in China.<\/p>\n

The ads initiative, meanwhile, applies much of the same principle as the general page-loading times to the\u00a0concept of advertising. Specifically, today Google is introducing coding for three new ad formats:<\/p>\n

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This is significant because one main reason that pages have crept to a halt on the web is because of advertising and the large amount of bloatware that accompanies them to measure\u00a0what we do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s led many people to implement ad blockers or browsers like Opera that block ads for you. For a company like Google, whose bread and butter is essentially online ads, this is an alarming trend, and so it\u2019s no surprise at all that its efforts to improve the mobile user experience have moved into improving the mobile advertising user experience.<\/p>\n

Of course, by writing the code for these new ad formats, it\u2019s also putting itself in the middle of how those ads will be implemented, giving Google an ongoing place at the table for how the next generation of the mobile web will monetize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" As Google looks for ways to keep\u00a0people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook’s Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP, its collaborative project to speed up mobile web pages. Today at the Google I\/O developer conference, Google announced that there are now over 2 billion AMP… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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