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AMP pages: the fast mobile versions of your pages

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AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) are stripped-back, fast-loading versions of your pages that the platform generates automatically for mobile visitors coming from search. This guide explains what gets created, how it stays in sync with your content, what is different on an AMP page, and how to switch AMP off for a single page or your whole brand if you prefer not to use it.

What AMP pages are

AMP is a web standard for very fast, lightweight mobile pages. For every eligible page on your brand, the platform automatically produces an AMP version alongside the normal one, at the same address with /amp in front of the path: your /pricing page gets an AMP twin at /amp/pricing. Search engines discover it through a link on your normal page and may serve it to visitors on mobile connections.

You never author or maintain AMP pages yourself. They are built from the same content as your normal page (your headline, images, copy, member showcase, menus and sign-up buttons) and update whenever your page does. The AMP layout is consistent across all templates: your logo and colours, a slide-out menu, and your page's sections in a single fast mobile column.

What gets added to your pages

With AMP on, two things appear that you might notice when viewing your site's source:

Two source views. The normal page's head contains a link rel amphtml pointing at the amp address (marker 1). The AMP version's source starts with an html amp tag and uses amp-img components, with a canonical link back to the normal page (marker 2).
(1) Your normal page advertises its AMP twin. (2) The AMP version marks itself as AMP and points back to the original.

What is different on an AMP page

Turning AMP off for a single page

Open the page in the Pages tab and find its SEO settings. The Should create amp page toggle (1) controls AMP for this page only; the View AMP Page link (2) opens the live AMP version so you can see exactly what visitors get:

A page's SEO settings. Marker 1 points to the Should create amp page toggle; marker 2 points to the View AMP Page link beneath it.
Per-page control: (1) the AMP toggle, (2) preview the live AMP version.

The per-page toggle is only available while AMP is enabled for the brand as a whole, and it does not appear on Canvas pages (which have no AMP versions).

Turning AMP off for the whole brand

If you would rather not use AMP at all, switch it off once for the brand: on the About your brand tab, find AMP Enabled (1) and turn the toggle off. The info icon (2) reminds you what it does:

The About your brand tab with the AMP Enabled toggle. Marker 1 points to the toggle; marker 2 to the explanatory tooltip text.
Brand-wide control on the About your brand tab: one switch covers every page.

What happens when you turn AMP off

Should you use AMP? It is on by default and costs you nothing to run, since the platform generates and updates everything. If your priority is showing mobile search visitors the full-fat version of your pages, or your pages rely on custom scripts for tracking, turning it off is a reasonable choice. Check the AMP version of your key pages with View AMP Page and decide with your own eyes.