mazzly
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Yes, for now will leave that up to <amp--auto-ads> that has been performing well for me on other site.
You were the last to get in now in this week.. I don't want to bring in too many people yet at this stage
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Yes. Everyone else has downloaded their copy but no one wants to tell you,
mazzly
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Not yet, but we are getting close to a good enough version for more testers
Wow
mazzly
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The initial version for "public use" should be released within a week or two. Just need to tie up some loose ends with how to charge for it / billing etc. (Currently building the site for it)
The beta test version is rendering AMP pages correctly and we have all (from those who have reported) seen good growth in the organic traffic.
I will report more once I launch the addon, but I'm very excited by how well it has performed for us so far
- Teaser: Before Google 3rd algo update I was up ~30-50% in traffic compared to previous 30 days, now I'm up 120%+ (google algo update gave me boost)
Aayush
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Don't make people wait for something they want. This could help you ship today: https://stripe.com/en-ca/payments/features#hosted-payment-page
mazzly
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Yep, know about them from before, but decided to go with Braintree instead since they have lower fees and should have better integration with Paypal
Excellent point.
And beyond this, if the antitrust suits are successful (and given the mood of various governments around the world regarding Google's domination I suspect it will be successful), and Google is forced to abandon AMP in search results, it will make most of the debates about whether Xenforo should push AMP pages redundant and moot.
Masetrix
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However, as long as using AMP increases the speed and results of a site to a level that exceeds the cost, as long as the mobile view of my site goes from Poor to Good, I will need to use AMP.
Politics and Google will find a way, it's just a matter of price. Until then, or until XF has solved the speed problem of the mobile view in connection with GoogleAds ...
That the problem can be solved shows that the same page in the desktop view delivers excellent speed values - with the same ads
Masetrix
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Sure, publishers that designed their web pages for speed and also use googleAds, the whole thing still in mobile view, they will no longer be of this opinion. Not so maybe if you host directly on the Google network.
But this, my point of view, is about XenForo, here AMP brings enormous speed advantages where the mobile view is concerned. Incidentally, I only see it from this point of view because I like to use XF as it has many other advantages.
Kevin
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Interesting article; weird redactions though.
mazzly
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Yes the redactions irk me a bit as well.
Anywho the lawsuit seems to be mostly related to header bidding, not about prioritizing AMP result, because they are faster.. (and yes, I read the part about the Faustian bargain)
Luckily there are alternative ways to serve ads apart from header bidding
Also AdSense is not the only ad network you can use, I personally utilize Ezoic that is a 3rd party ad broker that provides the best bid from across dozens of ad networks Well the lawsuit seems to be mostly related to header bidding manipulation which I agree is a quite a shoddy thing to do.
The way I see it the following might happen: Google gets a relatively small fine and has to stop "slowing down" the header bidding. Then they pay that fine which will very likely not even compare to what they have earned from their shoddy practices.
Then they will continue to prioritize AMP results, as those are anyway faster. (unless you start comparing oranges to apples..)
Bottom line: It doesn't really matter what happens with AMP, as long as it isn't discontinued (which I doubt, even though it was initially a google product).
We should just focus on increasing the amount of traffic that comes in to our forums. right? or?
I know personally how much my own site(s) have grown by utilizing AMP..
But you can also discard anything I say, as I'm biased and have built an AMP add-on (which will increase your traffic, no doubt) that I will release any day now
All the best, and a happy new year!
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eva2000
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Indeed, header bidding sites check their page speed waterfall and number of requests - it's crazy how much slower a page is. So I can see why Google AMP would try to eliminate that from page speed/performance perspective. Though it also has a bonus for them financially.
Though with Google also forcing more folks to focus on mobile first page speed and user experience signals, they're also inadvertently forcing folks to be more mindful of their page speed/structure too. So you have folks optimising their non-AMP pages to an extent that they can be as fast if not faster than AMP based pages. It's still a benefit to entire web in doing so. My own Xenforo is fast by Google Search Console web vital metrics even with Google Adsense and that is all optimisations I did without using AMP - just need to be mindful of how you structure your style and what styles you choose too.
One thing folks can try, is developing your web site and testing it will on a 1.6-5Mbps capped internet connection from start to finish
If you push 4+ MB sized pages to your visitors, it will be slow regardless if you're visitor is using a slow 3G/4G connection on a slow mobile device.
Haven't tried Cloudflare's AMP Real Url yet though
eva2000
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just retested those urls and I can see clearly that you have a lot of room for improving non-AMP style - just optimising that could have you close to your AMP results to start with
your non-AMP has more javascript alone than the entire AMP page size!
with almost twice the amount of javascript requests and 3x image requests to total almost 3.9x times the size of AMP page
your AMP
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