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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : Ruadhan O'Donoghue
Book Image

AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By: Ruadhan O'Donoghue

Overview of this book

Google introduced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project to give mobile users lightning-fast response times when accessing web pages on mobile devices. AMP delivers great user experiences by providing a framework for optimizing web pages that otherwise would take much longer to load on a mobile platform. This book shows how to solve page performance issues using the mobile web technologies available today. You will learn how to build instant-loading web pages, and have them featured more prominently on Google searches. If you want your website to succeed on mobile, if you care about SEO, and if you want to stay competitive, then this book is for you! You will go on a mobile web development journey that demonstrates with concrete examples how to build lightning-fast pages that will keep your visitors on-site and happy. This journey begins by showing how to build a simple blog article-style web page using AMP. As new concepts are introduced this page is gradually refined until you will have the skills and confidence to build a variety of rich and interactive mobile web pages. These will include e-commerce product pages, interactive forms and menus, maps and commenting systems, and even Progressive Web Apps.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Actions and Events
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amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Live content updates with <amp-live-list>


Another component for updating content dynamically is amp-live-list. Despite its similar name, it functions quite differently to amp-list. The main differences are as follows:

  • amp-live-list polls the source URL for new content at defined intervals, while amp-list performs a single fetch from a specified server endpoint
  • amp-live-list works with AMP-HTML pages, while amp-list deals with JSON data

Target use cases for amp-live-list include live blogs, breaking-news feeds, or any kind of live data that updates at intervals, such as sports scoreboards.

Note

Note that amp-live-list will request updates from the URL it was visited on. So if the page is served via the AMP Cache, then amp-live-list will request updates from the AMP Cache URL. In practice, this can mean slower updates than if being updated from the original URL, depending on how frequently the AMP Cache refreshes from your original page, and that depends at least in part on the caching headers...