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		afiori on Dec 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fight back against Google AMP (2018) As far as I recall they fixed that, now the problem is that they the measure for speed they use does some weird tricks around partial loads; as long as you display _something_ soon they are happy and the fact that a page might be useless for many seconds is weighted less

shadowgovt on Dec 4, 2019 [–]

That matches with human psychology of perception, IIUC.

afiori on Dec 4, 2019 | [–]

Yes, I understand why they would want to do it. But it also mean that I am staring at a unusable page...

shadowgovt on Dec 4, 2019 | | [–]

But the alternative is you'd be staring at a useragent-provided crawler for N seconds to get to a usable page, right?

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