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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

You're reading from   AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages Create lightning-fast mobile pages by leveraging AMP technology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467317
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruadhan O'Donoghue Ruadhan O'Donoghue
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Ride the Lightning with AMP FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First AMP Page 3. Making an Impression - Layout and Page Design in AMP 4. Engaging Users with Interactive AMP Components 5. Building Rich Media Pages in AMP 6. Making Contact - Forms in AMP 7. Dynamic Content and Data-Driven Interaction 8. Programming in AMP - amp-bind 9. When AMP Is Not Enough - Enter the iframe 10. Ads and Analytics in AMP 11. AMP Deployment and Your Web Presence 12. AMP - Where It's At and Where It's Going 13. AMP Components 14. Actions and Events 15. amp-bind Whitelisted Functions 16. amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Validating your AMP pages


Now that we've included the AMP-JS library we have access to a very important component of AMP that comes bundled with the library: the AMP validator. We briefly touched on AMP validation in the last chapter. Let's look at it in a bit more detail now.

Validation is useful because it will tell us when there are issues with our AMP pages, and it will report which part of a page has caused a problem. If an AMP page doesn't validate, it won't be included in the AMP Cache, and while it will still generally load quickly, it won't enjoy the benefit of instant loading that the cache brings.

Time to validate! If there's one thing that AMP is not short on, it's validation tools. There are a few different ways we can validate our pages.

Developer tools console

The browser developer console is probably the easiest way to start validating your pages. Since the validator is included in the AMP-JS library, you can validate every page out of the box. To validate an AMP page, open the...

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