The paint is still drying on the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project which was announced last month, but Google is already promising that it’s going to start rolling out sometime early next year. For those who don’t know, the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is Google’s attempt to make mobile web pages load faster, and Google is saying that the response has been great so far with 4,500 developers following the proceedings on GitHub. There’s also a long list of headlining web content publishers who have already voiced their support:
“Thousands of publishers have expressed interest in AMP since the preview launched with the likes of the BBC, Sankei, New York Times, News Corp, Washington Post and more. Since then, many others have committed their support to the project, including R7.com and NZN Group in Brazil; CBS Interactive, AOL, Thrillist, Slate, International Business Times/Newsweek, Al Jazeera America and The Next Web in the US; El Universal and Milenio in Mexico; The Globe and Mail and Postmedia in Canada, as well as many more across the globe. The Local Media Consortium (LMC), a partnership of 70+ media companies collectively representing 1,600 local newspapers and television stations, has also voiced their support.”
There still seems like there is significant work to do on all accounts – Google isn’t committing to a more specific timeline yet – but it’s definitely got the support to make things better. This isn’t the only project that’s trying to speed up mobile webpages with similar efforts from Apple and Facebook circulating as well.
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Source:Â Accelerated Mobile Pages Project via The Verge
