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by katee 3168 days ago
Huh, I've tested on a bunch of devices/connections and haven't encountered that. Do you know what causes AMP to be that slow for you? I'll take a look at serving non-AMP pages by default. It will require tweaking how image inclusion works.
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For people who use extensions or browsers that block third party JS, AMP pages will take many seconds to load in non-mobile Web browsers.

Here is information about some of the other problems with AMP:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider...

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/ampersand/

https://css-tricks.com/need-catch-amp-debate/

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/17/schreiber-amp

Fix your browser /shrug
It isn't just my browser. AMP performs very badly in some non-mobile browsers (no extensions).
Fix your website
Would you please remove amp entirely?