Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) FAQ

​​ What is AMP and how can I use it?

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are static pages that are rendered very quickly tailored towards mobile users. AMP uses a stricter flavor of HTML in order for mobile browsers to load faster. Please note that a standard web page isn’t AMP compatible by default; your web page must be written in compliance with the AMP format.  Domains on  Cloudflare CNAME setups Open external link  cannot utilize AMP Real URL. As a workaround, you can add the following CAA records in your authoritative DNS (the example below assumes that Cloudflare has issued a certificate from Digicert CA):

example.com IN CAA issue "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
example.com IN CAA issuewild "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"

Helpful background on AMP:

• What is AMP? Open external link
• How does AMP work? Open external link
• How do I create an AMP page? Open external link
• How do I publish an AMP enabled article? Open external link

Things to remember:

• Validate your AMP page Open external link
• Make sure that your AMP page is discoverable Open external link
• AMP will only appear for external links

​​ How can I validate an AMP enabled page?

Accelerated Mobile Pages require a particular structure to enable AMP features. If you’d like to know about creating an AMP enabled page, you can find out more at  AMP Project’s - Create your first AMP page Open external link .

Validate your existing AMP enabled pages in one of three ways:

• Using AMPProject.org Validation - Enter your URL through an AMP validator to look for warnings and/or errors: Validate your AMP page Open external link

• Using Chrome Developer Tools - Validate your AMP enabled pages through Chrome Developer Tools:

1. Open your AMP page in your browser
2. Append “#development=1” to the URL, for example, http://localhost:8000/amp.html#development=1.
3. Open the Chrome DevTools console Open external link  and check for validation errors.

• Using Browser Extensions - AMP validator browser extensions are available for  Chrome Open external link  and  Opera Open external link .

Learn more about all of these tools and how to fix certain validation errors at AMP Project validation options Open external link .

​​ Can I use WordPress with AMP?

Yes! Accelerated Mobile Pages are designed to speed up external AMP enabled articles on your Cloudflare enabled site. If you have a WordPress site and would like to make it AMP enabled, the WordPress AMP Plugin Open external link will do this automatically.

Once you’ve installed the plugin, test the functionality by adding ?amp=1 to the end of your WordPress URL (for example: https://example.com/2016/01/01/amp-on/?amp=1).