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It’s Official: AMP Landing Pages Now Available in Instapage

by Brandon Weaver in AMP, Advertising, Instapage Updates

Back in February we announced our partnership with Google to develop Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) functionality, and AMP landing pages in the Instapage platform. They invited us to speak at their global AMP Conference where we discussed How to Balance AMP Limitations with Optimization Features.

Since then, our engineers and product team have obsessed with building this new feature.

Today, as the leader in post-click optimization, Instapage is excited to introduce the ability to create post-click landing pages using the AMP framework. The AMP framework allows for faster page load speeds on mobile devices, enabling marketers and advertisers to provide a better user experience for mobile browsing. With this new capability in Instapage, marketers and advertisers can create AMP post-click landing pages directly from our platform.

*Update: As of September 2018, you can A/B test and publish AMP pages to WordPress, too.

*Instapage provides the only post-click landing page builder with the capability to build mobile-optimized post-click landing pages using AMP.

Why we built AMP functionality

In 2015, Google highlighted the shift towards mobile after recognizing more searches take place on mobile devices than desktops. And by 2019, ad spend on mobile will account for 62.5% of all digital advertising. So, mobile usage has been growing and mobile ad spend is now the majority.

Now, consider these startling revelations about page load speed:

  • The average mobile site takes 19 seconds to load over a 3G connection, and 77% of mobile sites take over 10 seconds to load.
  • Google learned that conversions fall by 20% for every additional second a webpage takes to load. To compare, sites that loaded in 5 seconds had 2x more mobile ad revenue than sites that loaded in 19 seconds.
  • 40% of consumers will leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load.
  • 61% of users are unlikely to return to a mobile site that they had trouble accessing.

The conclusion? If page load isn’t instant, it’s not fast enough. Creating a positive post-click landing page on mobile is essential since the post-click landing page is where conversions happen. If your post-click landing page loads too slowly or creates a disjointed experience from ad to post-click, visitors will bounce.

Why accelerated mobile pages matter

Google looks at post-click landing page experience as one factor to determine ad rank, which ultimately contributes to your click-through rate. And while publishers have embraced frameworks like AMP to speed up web content delivery on mobile devices, the marketing industry has not caught up. As more consumers and B2B buyers spend more time on mobile, marketers and advertisers are forced to adapt with mobile-optimized campaigns.

AMP pages are attractive to advertisers because they allow for more compelling mobile user experiences through near-instantaneous load times and smooth scrolling, while still supporting some styling and branding customizability. Unlike regular mobile pages, AMP pages are automatically cached by Google AMP Cache for faster load times on Google search.

Benefits of AMP post-click landing pages

To summarize AMP’s key benefits alongside Instapage, let’s recap how AMP affects your advertising campaigns and the user experience:

  • The ability to build post-click landing pages using the AMP framework quickly, directly from the Instapage platform, and without needing a developer
  • Faster page load speed on mobile devices
  • Better user experience for mobile browsing
  • Using AMP pages can help increase your Quality Score
  • Google will favor pages that use AMP

Mobile isn’t the future of the web. Mobile is now, and brands that comply with this preferred framework will be positioned for success and have a significant advantage over competitors.

How to create an AMP post-click landing page in Instapage

AMP functionality is an Enterprise-plan only feature, and building a page is quick and easy. Follow the steps here.

Step 1: Create a new page

Select AMP Page from the modal:

AMP post-click landing pages Instapage create new

The next screen prompts you to name the page. This is different than the standard builder where it asks which template you wish to use (or build from scratch). AMP pages are built from scratch, so no template options are available.

Step 2: Add elements to the page

The second difference you will see is that Timer and HTML widgets are absent from the toolbar, but you still have the remaining widgets:

AMP post-click landing pages Instapage toolbar

And these options, too:

AMP post-click landing pages Instapage settings

Note: Collaboration (“Comment”) and Instablocks™ are both functional within the AMP builder. Unfortunately, heatmaps and Global Blocks are not applicable.

AMP post-click landing pages have a 75KB limit, and each widget in the Instapage AMP builder is weighted. As you build a page, a validator operates in the background so that your page doesn’t exceed the 75KB limit. If you reach 80% of the limit, this warning indicator appears near the bottom of the screen:

AMP post-click landing pages approaching size limit

Step 3: Validate the page

As you continue building and approach the 75KB limit, another indicator appears requesting you validate the page to confirm it is within acceptable limits:

AMP post-click landing pages exceeded size limit

Should the page pass validation, you will see these on-screen messages:

AMP post-click landing pages successful validation

AMP post-click landing pages validation passed

Step 4: Publish

After you finish and click Publish, you will be notified if you exceed the 75KB limit:

AMP post-click landing pages size limit exceeded

If you don’t see that message, your page is ready to publish. At this point, insert your subdomain and domain:

AMP post-click landing pages Instapage publish

Once the page is live, you will see the AMP logo next to the page in the dashboard:

AMP post-click landing pages published page Instapage

How to get started with AMP post-click landing pages

Enterprise customers can sign into their account and start building AMP post-click landing pages today. If you are not an Instapage Enterprise customer, or have a Core, Optimizer, or Team & Agency account, request an AMP demo today.

See the AMP builder in action and discover why Instapage is the most robust post-click automation platform on the market.

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Brandon Weaver

by Brandon Weaver

Brandon Weaver is the Head of Content at Instapage. He's one of the worlds leading experts on digital advertising, CRO, & personalization.

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