On June twenty eighth, three weeks in the past, I eliminated the AMP pages from this web site. Total, I did not see total visitors adjustments from the change. I did discover points with this web site in Google Uncover, a spike in crawl charges, a soar in AMP errors and a few extra adjustments.
Listed below are some charts from Google Search Console exhibiting you what I seen after eradicating AMP from this web site.
I ought to notice that we eliminated AMP as a result of I did not need to use the workaround for GA4 to trace AMP. Plus, AMP just isn’t required anymore for high tales and the like. I adopted the Google documentation when eradicating AMP from this web site.
On this chart, you may see the legitimate AMP pages went from a relentless 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 “concern” 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 indicate extra pages listed with extra errors additionally:
There have been points with this web site exhibiting up in Google Uncover for a time period. Plus, for some causes the pictures Google Uncover confirmed have been smaller. So I used the max picture preview tag to repair that (thanks Glenn) and it labored, though 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 tough to foretell and infrequently ever secure:
Right here is the picture concern (Glenn took screenshots):
In case you have been questioning how Barry’s posts have been exhibiting 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 indicate bigger photographs 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:
Total, I feel eradicating AMP from this web site went fairly easily. The one actual hiccup have been the pictures proven in Google Uncover being smaller than regular, which we obtained fastened.
How did your efforts eradicating AMP out of your websites go? Was it comparable?
Additionally, it has solely been three weeks however by now you may see the route issues went and are actually going.
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