On June twenty eighth, three weeks in the past, I eliminated the AMP pages from this website. General, I did not see general visitors modifications from the change. I did discover points with this website in Google Uncover, a spike in crawl charges, a leap in AMP errors and a few extra modifications.
Listed below are some charts from Google Search Console displaying you what I seen after eradicating AMP from this website.
I ought to observe that we eliminated AMP as a result of I did not need to use the workaround for GA4 to trace AMP. Plus, AMP isn’t required anymore for prime tales and the like. I adopted the Google documentation when eradicating AMP from this website.
On this chart, you possibly can see the legitimate AMP pages went from a continuing wholesome quantity to zero AMP pages, which is what was anticipated. You possibly can click on on any of the pictures to enlarge:
And naturally, the AMP errors spiked for a bit, additionally anticipated:
The “challenge” was that Google had the AMP URL referenced within the canonical web page however I eliminated it however there was a delay within the reporting. You possibly can see these particulars on this drill in report:
The web page indexing report began to point out extra pages listed with extra errors additionally:
There have been points with this website displaying up in Google Uncover for a time frame. Plus, for some causes the pictures Google Uncover confirmed had been smaller. So I used the max picture preview tag to repair that (thanks Glenn) and it labored, despite the fact that I had no restrictions on the pictures and the pictures by no means modified.
Right here is the Uncover report, it appears to be coming again, however Uncover itself is difficult to foretell and infrequently ever steady:
Right here is the picture challenge (Glenn took screenshots):
In case you had been questioning how Barry’s posts had been displaying up in Uncover after eradicating AMP (and earlier than max-image-preview was included), here’s a earlier than/after. Google’s docs clarify so as to add max-image-preview to point out bigger pictures in Uncover (or by utilizing AMP). pic.twitter.com/0nS3OCh0Lr
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) July 21, 2023
Additionally as anticipated was an enormous spike in crawl stats:
General, I believe eradicating AMP from this website went fairly easily. The one actual hiccup had been the pictures proven in Google Uncover being smaller than regular, which we obtained mounted.
How did your efforts eradicating AMP out of your websites go? Was it related?
Additionally, it has solely been three weeks however by now you possibly can see the route issues went and at the moment are going.
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