Start with your email: http://eepurl.com/gNoJBL I was curious to see if Google News was mobile-friendly, so I tested the introduction of AMP into the service. This article was originally published on https://www.ergoseo.com/google-news-mobile-performance.html

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I thought it would be interesting to run a mobile-friendly
and speed test on Google News (US edition) given the
opportunity of writing a post on Accelerated Mobile Pages
introduced in Google News.
Is Google News mobile-friendly? (Case
study)
Curious to see if Google News was mobile-friendly,
I tested the introduction of AMP into the service.

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I mean, if Google is pushing us all into optimizing all our properties, it makes sense to assume their
products lead the way, right?
For the purpose, I used a Google tool that runs the mobile-friendly test and at the same time checks
the speed of the site: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/
Well, the results of the trial were unexpected. The site is mobile-friendly but is not fast enough for
mobile devices.
It looks like your site could use improvement
Bad face for Google!
It tops up in mobile-friendliness, as expected since Google invests for two years now in offering
content and services to mobile users.

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The Google tool says that Google News:
..is slow on laptop and desktop devices. In today's world, people expect an
instantaneous response -- any delay can cause them to click to another
site.
I could not agree more with Google, so good luck with fixing that.
Now, how fast is on mobile phones? Google News is not doing well at all.
Nearly half of the visitors will leave a mobile site if the pages don't load
within 3 seconds.

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Update May 15, 2020
Despite the introduction of AMP and preaching about mobile-friendly, fast websites, Google
News performs even worse today on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile 50/100, First
contentful paint 3.8 sec., Desktop 71/100.

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