AMP Vs Responsive Web Design-Speed Vs Flexibility

Many people are interested to know about AMP Vs Responsive Web Design. We will try to cover as much information as possible in this article. To make a successful business over the web, one needs a mobile friendly website. Today’s trends are mobile, 75% customers are making orders using mobile devices. To make this into consideration, a developer needs to deliver mobile-friendly websites. Responsive web design is one way to achieve it while AMP is other way to make fast loading web pages for Mobile devices.

WHAT IS RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN?

Responsive web design can be achieved using CSS3 media queries. Media queries allow web pages to use different CSS styles based on user’s browser width. So according to mobile device width, one can easily write logical CSS media queries to make them compatible with different mobile devices. Regarding AMP Vs Responsive Web Design, Responsive Web Design focused on flexibility.

Moreover, we can’t forget Google to get most of the business via search engine. Now a day, Google is the top most search engine. Google gives a lot of importance to page speed of website to improve the user experience. Majority of people are still using websites in mobile devices opposed to mobile applications. Obviously, there are specific audience who uses iOS apps and android apps for eCommerce portals and others.

Google introduce mobile friendly feature when they show the result for any search term. So whenever your website list in Google searches result, you can see a label of Mobile Friendly. 90% of websites are mobile friendly therefore Google come up with AMP concept to create mobile friendly pages which are light weighted and loads quickly in a mobile device.

WHAT IS AMP ?

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open source initiative by Google. It’s a web framework designed to create fast loading mobile friendly pages. Furthermore, It uses the wide range of optimized techniques to speed up the loading time of web page in a mobile device.

In addition, you do not need to design or develop your existing website again to implement AMP. You can easily implement AMP in your existing website without changing any design. That’s the beauty of AMP concept. Responsive Web Design while AMP focused on speed.

What AMP consists of

AMP have 2 primary objectives

WHY AMP IS FASTER

AMP is a subset of HTML and it has been criticized for the same. However, AMP is not a replacement of responsive web design. AMP is specifically designed to increase user experience by creating fast loading web pages for mobile devices.

AMP VS RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN

AMP

Responsive Web Design

DOES MY WEBSITE NEEDS AMP?

It depends! First of all, if you are publishing content and targeting mobile users than the answer is YES. AMP will provide a better user experience and faster loading time for your web page compare to anyone else. However, AMP is not advised to those websites having web forms and JavaScript features. You can validate AMP compatible pages using https://validator.ampproject.org/

Crest Infotech is always focusing in delivering faster loading websites and increasing user experience. As a result, our clients will get more traffic, more leads, high conversion rate and more orders through mobile devices. Get in touch with us for either responsive web design or AMP implementation.