Tag Archives: AMP
AMPconf: AMP is a performance framework that’s growing up
March 10, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
The first ever AMP conference drew to a close this week after two days of sessions in NYC. We’ve been interested in AMP here at mobiForge since its launch because the emphasis on performance resonates so well with us; performance is a cornerstone of AMP. The conference brought together members of the AMP project, partners... Read More
Why your content doesn’t work on mobile
December 14, 2016, by Martin Clancy
Anyone involved in developing content for the mobile web is probably already aware of the huge performance challenges on mobile. There is now widespread acceptance that we should budget for performance just as much as we should for design, and functionality. Perhaps even more so. So why are many websites still failing users by serving... Read More
Serving AMP pages to all mobile users
November 10, 2016, by ronan
AMP is growing in importance in the web publishing world. Here at mobiForge we have some serious misgivings with the approach taken by Google with AMP but the speed up in page loading time is inarguable. This post describes a method for exposing AMP pages to all mobile visitors using some server-side device detection so that all mobile... Read More
Bootstrapping Progressive Web Apps with amp-install-serviceworker
August 18, 2016, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
So you’re interested in the super-fast load times that AMP web pages offer, and you’re titillated by the rich, native-like experiences and functionality that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) can deliver! How do you provide a seamless and instantaneous bridge between the two? Why, with <amp-install-serviceworker> of course! In this article we take a look at... Read More
Transcoders – the technology we love to hate that will never go away
July 27, 2016, by ronan
Many years ago I remember a Google product manager saying that his product, the Google mobile transcoder, was the one product that everyone wished would go away... Read More
