AMP

meetdilip

What is Flarum's view on AMP ? Google is very keen on publishers adopting it. Woltlab has introduced AMP in their article system for Woltlab suite 3.0 which in beta. WordPress has a couple of AMP plugins as well.

meetdilip

Google likes you more if you have an AMP version of your content.

Prosperous

Google likes Flarum regardless. ?

punit2502

Would Love Flarum more if AMP functionality will be added to core or as an extension. AMP is much needed.

jordanjay29

AMP is pretty unnecessary, Flarum is already built to be mobile friendly. Everything you can do on desktop in Flarum, you can do on mobile.

JoshyPHP

punit2502 AMP is much needed.

Would you mind describing why AMP is needed, with its practical benefits?

NucutaNetwork

It just makes the site more fast, but I guess it should be less prioritized, since the software has yet to reach to its final version.

JoshyPHP

NucutaNetwork It just makes the site more fast

Is that a fact? Can you describe how would it make Flarum faster? I don't think it would.

NucutaNetwork

JoshyPHP
Using AMP makes the site optimized for mobile, it's something you can check with
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Just run a random site, then it will show how to optimize the site for the mobiles, and what AMP does is making the site optimize for the mobile.

NucutaNetwork

It says poor when I checked this site
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.flarum.org

"This page is not optimized and is likely to deliver a slow user experience. Please prioritize and apply the recommendations below."

punit2502

jordanjay29 JoshyPHP
I know flarum is mobile ready and loads faster, that's not the concern. Google recently launched mobile first index and will definitely boost SERPs of AMP ready websites.

JoshyPHP

punit2502 So the argument is not that AMP improves a site or a site's performance, it's that it could improve its ranking in Google. Is that correct?

NucutaNetwork what AMP does is making the site optimize for the mobile.

But can you name one of those things?

punit2502

JoshyPHP So the argument is not that AMP improves a site or a site's performance, it's that it could improve its ranking in Google. Is that correct?

Correct. Because it does not matter how good your website is until there are visitors actually visiting it and to get more traffic one has to optimise each & every aspect which can increase traffic.

Zeokat

Well... AMP goes more far than have a mobile ready website. Nowadays AMP is something needed and lots of important websites already adopted it.

@punit2502 If you care about SEO, simply choose another forum software. At this development stage, Flarum's SEO is totally messed up.

From my own experience, we migrated our community from MyBB to Flarum and we lose 60% of organic traffic in less that 48 hours. We had to restore MyBB and organic traffic needed two weeks to return to the "normal" numbers.

So... Flarum is good piece of software and concept but not SEO ready. In other words, if you are planning to get traffic from Google, forget it.

Davis

AMP is meant for static pages.

punit2502

Davis Reddit is not static. See example of Reddit implementing AMP:

https://amp.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/53ztlp/what_is_ampredditcom/

jordanjay29

punit2502 except that's a static version of a reddit thread. You'll notice no login buttons or a way to respond, vote or interact other than the Share menu.

MohamedAmineDakak

AMP is meant for Accelerated Mobile Pages

Digital

Flarum doesn't need AMP. Period.

Flarum is pretty responsive right out of the box, so there is no reason to use amp.