How to speed mobile page load times with AMP and WordPress

With Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages, you can deliver mobile web pages faster. And, the best part is that it’s totally free.

Here’s the short version: If you use WordPress.org, install the AMP-WP plugin.

The longer version may be more interesting: Want to dramatically reduce WordPress page load times for mobile browsers? Want to deliver your WordPress pages quickly to a viewer from a nearby Google datacenter for free?

Google, Twitter, and WordPress all support the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, which aims to make the mobile web experience faster. AMP offers a framework designed to deliver web pages optimized for speed to mobile devices. TechRepublic’s Dan Patterson covered the launch details in October 2015.

Following the launch, the WordPress team released the open source plugin, amp-wp on GitHub. The plugin auto-generates Accelerated Mobile Pages for your site—with /amp/ added at the end. WordPress also plans to support AMP on WordPress.com.

Read this entire helpful article which walks you through the steps of installing the AMP-WP plugin on your WordPress site. Seriously guys, this is critical stuff right now. Don’t take it lightly. Follow the article here: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-speed-mobile-page-load-times-with-amp-and-wordpress/

To get the plugin, you can either go here and download it, OR search for it in your WordPress dashboard by going to Appearance>Plugins>Add New Plugin and doing a search for “AMP”

There’s also a helpful video. It’s from Dec of last year, but it is still the same process.