What websites are you noticing better performance? I usually encounter AMP on reddit and, at least on my phone, it seems to make the page load even slower.
On basically anything that uses it. I'll give an example from the google feed on my phone, now. Some article on zdnet about RedHat discontinuing CentOS in favor of stream.
If I open the AMP link [0] in Firefox and measure the bandwidth used, it's around 685 kilobytes transferred in 1.32 seconds. The original article transfers almost 3.6 megabytes over 3.89 seconds, with the page taking almost 9 seconds total to load in, vs only 1.43 seconds total on the AMP page.
This is on my residential internet on an 8 core, 32 thread POWER9 workstation. My internet isn't great, but it's a heck of a lot better than the 15-40 kb/s I got overseas. There, that full page would take almost 2 whole minutes to load, versus only 20 seconds.
Obviously, there's more to this -- the non-AMP page loads its text before the other elements, so it's not like you'd have to wait the entire 2 minutes to begin reading. And beyond the technology, there are other reasons to not use AMP.
But suggesting we shouldn't use AMP because it's bad technology or broken isn't really telling the whole story. There are plenty of people who will get much better experiences with AMP than whatever fat pages would otherwise get shoved their way.
We shouldn't become dependent on google for this, but we also shouldn't pretend like there isn't a need for AMP, at least for some people.
i use old.reddit.com on my phone, since ironically the mobile version is too bloated to ever finish loading before I give up on my cheap mobile internet.
