Hi everyone! Welcome to my tutorial on adding AMP to your WordPress blog. I'm Kevin Shan and have been a premium member at WA messing around with WordPress blogs for multiple years now.

This training is about accelerated mobile pages, also known as AMP. Throughout the tutorial, I will introduce what AMP is, how it can help you, and how to implement AMP on your WordPress blog.

Let's jump into what AMP is.

AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages

AMP is an open-source HTML framework created by Google to speed up websites on mobile by minimizing Javascript and CSS to create super-fast mobile pages. According to various sources, implementing AMP on your site will allow it to load 2-9 times faster on mobile devices depending on technologies such as pre-rendering.

Tech jargon aside, what does this all mean?

If you implement AMP, you will see huge improvements in your website speed for mobile users. Improved website speeds will mean fewer people leaving your site because it didn't load and better search rankings on Google.

AMP also gives you the opportunity to be distributed in Google news feeds giving you a chance to get more organic traffic as well.

So if AMP has all these benefits, why doesn't everyone implement it?

Disadvantages of AMP

Since AMP gets rid of nearly all your CSS and Javascript, your website tends to look a little bland and boring on mobile pages. Here's a comparison:

Normal Page

AMP

The two pictures above are pictures of the same blog post. As you can see, my normal page contains hovering social share buttons, a sidebar with various elements, and ads in my blog post.

The AMP version of this blog post, however, is just the blog post. There are no sidebars, ads, or any other interactive feature. It's just content.

Anybody who significantly relies on driving income from email pop-ups and display ads will generally see a dip in performance when it comes to revenue.

However, the performance gains you get from AMP and the better mobile user experience you create will have a good impact on your website. You will lower metrics such as bounce rate and improve your website's loading speed which will potentially lead to better rankings and more traffic in the future.

Let's get started with the easiest way to implement AMP on your WordPress blog.