Google AMP improvement ideas

Hi there,

Just installed & configured the AMP plugin by TagDiv and it’s pretty cool that it works for like 90% right away!

I do have some suggestions to improve it, though:

1. Please see https://medium.com/google-developers/how-to-avoid-common-mistakes-when-publishing-accelerated-mobile-pages-9ea61abf530f for more information on how to make AMP more SEO-friendly. The 1 thing you guys don’t have yet that Yoast SEO does is link rel=”amphtml”. This is very important to appear in the Google Top Stories Carousel with AMP.
2. Smart list + Google AMP + anchor links to parts of the same page generates URLs like this. All the other Newspaper theme features do not have any problems with AMP + linking to a certain part of a page (with #anchor). So, it’s just the combination of smart lists + AMP + linking to a part of a page that’s not working.
3. Image resizing is not fully responsive for Google AMP. Images are just a little too wide on all mobile devices (e.g. iPhone 7, iPhone 8 Plus, and so on). Images do scale/resize on AMP, yes, but they are still a little too big. Just compare non-AMP with AMP using Google dev tools.
4. Not sure yet if this is a problem: tracking visitors with Analytics may not be working. I used the Analytics JSON tracking code like the instructions said and I see the amp-analytics script in the code of the pages, but visitors don’t show up in the statistics (yet). Maybe there’s a time delay. Again, not sure if this is a problem yet. I will confirm later.

I hope this feedback will help you improve the TagDiv Google AMP plugin!

You’re welcome!

BTW: about #4. Visitors are showing up in Google Analytics so the amp-analytics script does work 🙂