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<h2>Google AMP Pagespeed Test vs Astra Optimized Wordpress Theme</h2>
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<p><em>Google AMP</em> is a project formerly named <em>"Accelerated Mobile Pages"</em> to speed up websites and I did a head to head test on my website on five of the top pages, <em>Jerrybanfield.com</em> and <em>Jerrybanfield.com/amp</em> to test out if <em>amp</em> is faster than my own <em>Astra WordPress</em> theme. </p>
<p>I just got my <em>Astra</em> theme so d that my desktop score is consistently between 90 and a hundred on most pages. </p>
<p>Now, you will be surprised at the results here for this, if you're like me. </p>
<p>These are the pages we're testing <em>Jerrybayfield.com/amp</em> versus <em>Jerrybanfield.com.</em> Now note that <em>amp</em> is optimized for a mobile device while this is both for mobile and desktop, this is a default homepage I've got with my <em>Astra WordPress</em> theme.</p>
<p>Here's one of the top pages on my website: <em>"<a href="https://jerrybanfield.com/time-travel-is-real/">Time travel is real</a>."</em></p>
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<p>I show about how to appreciate the <em>now</em> basically crammed in <em>Eckhart Tolle's</em> lessons into a little blog post on time travel and people googling <em>"Is time travel real"</em> are coming to my website and finding this post. </p>
<p>Now, you'll notice in the <em>amp</em> version of this post, it has the <em>YouTube</em> video fully embedded, whereas in my optimized <em>WordPress</em> with <em>Astra,</em> I've used <em><a href="https://jerrybanfield.com/faster-youtube-video-embeds/">WP YouTube Lyte</a></em> where this is not actually an embedded <em>YouTube</em> video, even though it looks like it. </p>
<p>This is just a thumbnail with a button, and when you click on it, it pulls the video. </p>
<p>Therefore, I've made some changes to optimize my website. Here's one of the most popular posts on my website for <em>Facebook</em> ads account disabled. As you can see, the <em>amp</em> version again, has an embedded <em>YouTube</em> video, it's also got these share buttons down here, whereas the desktop version doesn't.</p>
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<p>Another popular post, same thing, <em>YouTube</em> video here, another popular post, same thing with the <em>YouTube</em> video. </p>
<p>Now note, this homepage does not have any <em>YouTube</em> videos on it. </p>
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<p>Let's take a look at the speed test results. </p>
<p><em>Jerrybanfield.com/amp</em> is <em>71</em> on the page speed score, which is better than it was on my old theme, and in fact <em>amp</em> is one of the fastest ways.</p>
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<p>If you've got a really slow theme, you can just put <em>amp</em> for <em>WP</em> on your website and speed it up a whole bunch. </p>
<p>However, <em>71</em> on mobile is still not very good, in my opinion, for <em>Jerrybanfield.com/amp</em> and an <em>80</em> on desktop, which means there's a lot of room for improvement. </p>
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<p>How do you think <a href="https://jerrybanfield.com/"><em>JerryBanfield.com</em></a> itself did without amp? </p>
<p>Let's take a look. </p>
<p>Let's go, <em>93</em> without <em>amp</em> on my home page on mobile.</p>
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<p>Very fast load on desktop with <em>99</em> even though my webpage is just a listing of blog posts, it should run in theory with all the pages.</p>
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<p>My home page was running really slow before, before I spent <em>20</em> or <em>30</em> hours on <em>Astra</em> getting everything optimized.</p>
<p>I am shocked that I've now got my website so optimized that the non-amp <em>URL</em> is faster and this is the same result on every page. </p>
<p>The main thing that's slowing <em>amp</em> for <em>WP,</em> the plugin I'm using on <em>WordPress,</em> the main thing that's slowing <em>amp</em> down is it's having to pull this embed from <em>YouTube.</em></p>
<p>This embed from <em>YouTube</em> is so big that it's increasing the page size on it, which is taking a lot longer to load.</p>
<p>That's the same thing on desktop even though the size isn't as much of an issue, <em>86</em> on desktop. If you look at this one on mobile, it's <em>93</em> on mobile and <em>100</em> maximum on desktop and that's because with this little <em>YouTube Lyte</em> plugin I've got, it doesn't load the video and loading an embedded <em>YouTube</em> videos on the beginning of a page slows down the page a lot.</p>
<p>Again, same results. Here's a page that does not have any embedded video on it, which is a good case study and for some reason the <em>amp URL</em> was redirected, I couldn't use this one, but if you want to get rid of your <em>amp</em> pages, you need to do redirects within. </p>
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<p>In <em>Kinsta</em> I do them in my host and I will be getting off my <em>amp</em> pages right after that. </p>
<p>This is ridiculous. <em>42</em> on the <em>amp</em> on this one, and again it's all because of having to load this embedded <em>YouTube</em> video.</p>
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<p>When you go to this same version on my website, it looks the same to the user but it loads at a <em>95</em> and I'm shocked that I'm actually slowing my website down with <em>amp.</em></p>
<p>This one is <em>51</em> on <em>amp</em> and the non-amp version is <em>92</em> on mobile, <em>99</em> on desktop. Therefore it is much better if you can simply get a lightweight <em>WordPress</em> theme like <em>Astra</em> and optimize the theme itself because the page load times are so fast.</p>
<p>Thus, I'm going in and <a href="https://jerrybanfield.com/removing-amp-wordpress/">disabling <em>amp</em> for <em>WP</em> on my website</a> right now, I'm redirecting all my old <em>amp URLs</em> over based on this speed data. </p>
<p>I actually just put <em>amp</em> back on my website and I actually just took my search results down by slowing my website down.</p>
<p>I hope this little speed test has been helpful for you if you are interested to know or you're thinking about having <em>amp</em> on your website or not. </p>
<p>If you've got a really slow theme, <em>amp</em> can be a short-term solution to get your search traffic up, which it helped me initially to do that. </p>
<p>However, my theme is so fast now, I don't need <em>amp.</em></p>
<p>I still like the idea of <em>amp,</em> but <em>amp</em> is the clear loser in this race.</p>
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<p>Edits from video transcript by <em>Michel Gerard</em> at <em><a href="http://www.michelgerardonline.com">www.michelgerardonline.com</a>.</em></p>
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