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Lessons From 10+ Case Studies
Time to AMP-lifyYour Digital Marketing
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Lessons From 10+ Case Studies
Time to AMP-lifyYour Digital Marketing
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ERIC ENGE, CEOSTONE TEMPLE CONSULTING
2016 Landy’s Search Marketer of the Year2016 US Search Awards Search Personality of the Year
Eric’s Studies Have Been Covered In:
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New Study Released on
October 9, 2017
stonet.co/sosamp
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Very Brief AMP Background
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The AMP News Carousel is a
Huge UI Change in the
Mobile Environment
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Profile #1 – Media Site Included in the News Carousel
Major media site
Custom Implementation, took 4 Weeks
Converted 90+% of pages (all article pages)
They are in Google News, and as a result get into the News Carousel
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But…
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Company Load Time Change / Results Impact
0.1 second increase1% decrease in sales
$1.3B / year
1 second decrease2% increase in conversions
$274M / year
0.4 second decrease9% increase in traffic
600M visitors per month
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Source: 9to5Google.com
Poll Asking if Users Look for the AMP Symbol
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4 AMP Myths
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Myth 1
AMP Only Benefits
News Sites
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Profile #2 – Real Estate Site
Real estate listings site
Custom Implementation
Converted all their Google indexed
pages
Converted in less than 3 weeks with
2 engineers
Implemented Progressive Web
App for pages after the landing page
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Profile #2 – Real Estate Site AMP Metrics
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Myth 1 Busted!
AMP Only Benefits
News Sites
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Sidebar 1: How Does a Progressive Web App
Help Speed?
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• Prefetches content.
• Increases online performance by reducing network requests for certain assets.
• Allows website to function offline.
The Key is Service Workers
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Myth 2
AMP can’t be Used for
E-commerce Sites
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Profile #3 – E-Commerce Site
Major E-Commerce Site
Custom implementation
Converted all their category pages plus home page (85-90% of organic traffic)
2 to 3 weeks to implement
Implemented Progressive Web App for pages after the landing page
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Landing Page Load Time
Reduced by 65%
Bounce Rate Reduced by 40%
Mobile Revenue Increasing
Profile #3 – E-Commerce Site: The Results
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“Ebay has invested heavily in AMP, and remains fully committed to it. (We are) focused on rolling AMP out to more of our site, and we know that speeding up pages helps improve the customer experience leading to better e-commerce conversion.”
Pete Dainty, Ebay, October 6, 2017
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Myth 2 Busted!
AMP can’t be Used for
E-commerce Sites
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Myth 3
Build it and They Will Come
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Profile #4 – Lead Gen Site with Blog Content
Wordpresssite
Started with AMP Automatic Plugin
Switched to AMP for Wordpress
Converted 61% of pages
3 to 4 weeks to implement
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Profile #4 – How Did the AMP Pages Perform?
Page TypePages / Session
Session Time Bounce Rate
Non-AMP 1.27 52.78 86.7%
AMP 1.04 17.47 95.7%
% Increase 82% 33% 110%
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Profile #4 – Why Did the AMP Pages Underperform?(Broken Hamburger Menu –
No Call to Action)
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Profile #4 – Improvements: Fixed Hamburger Menu,
Added Clear CTA
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Profile #4 – Did Our Improvements Help (Time on Site)?
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Myth 3 Busted!
Build it and They Will Come
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Profile #4 – Did Our Improvements Help?
But They Also Have a Tracking Problem
Pages / Session Session Time Bounce Rate
Non-AMP 1.27 52.78 86.7%
AMP 1.08 32.99 93.9%
% Increase 85% 63% 108%
Before Improvements
82% 33% 110%
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Sidebar 2: What is the Analytics Problem?
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Tracking Users in AMP
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AMP Analytics– What are the Resulting Problems
Will show Pages Per Session as very close to 1.0
Bounce Rate will be very high (greater than 90%)
Session Time will be very short
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The Session Stitching Solution
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Myth #4
AMP Sites are Stripped
Down
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Profile #5: Standard Mobile Page for Stone
Temple Site
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Mobile Responsive PageAMP Plugin Page (AMP
Automatic Plugin)
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Profile #5: Stone Temple AMP Metrics
ALL PAGES SessionsBounce Rate
Pages / Session
Avg. Session Duration (Secs.)
AMP 2,352 94.26% 1.07 22.36
MOB GOOG 3,819 85.60% 1.32 55.00
DSK GOOG 20,640 77.38% 1.43 76.00
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Mobile Responsive Page Hand Crafted AMP Page
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Myth 4 Busted!
AMP Sites are Stripped
Down
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Keys to Success
1 •Embrace AMP’s Goals
2•Follow Through
to a Complete Implementation
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New Study Released on
October 9, 2017
stonet.co/sosamp
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Eric [email protected]@stonetemple+Eric Enge
ThankYou!
Stone Temple [email protected]@stc_corp(508) 879-0995
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