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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : O'Donoghue
Book Image

AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By: 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 (17 chapters)
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Actions and Events
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amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to extend AMP beyond what it supports through its core and extended components. We saw that with amp-iframe we can include all kinds of functionality. We focused on maps, comment systems, and checkout and payment functionality in this chapter since these are features common in e-commerce and news and blog type sites. Significantly, together with the HTML5 Payment Request API and amp-iframe we were able to complete our e-commerce prototype. However, amp-iframe is by no means limited to these features. You're only limited here by your imagination!

In the next chapter, we'll turn our attention towards analytics and ad support in AMP, two important topics that can help measure the performance of a site, as well as provide a monetization model, respectively.