AMP (originally an acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages[1]) is an open sourceHTML framework developed by the AMP Open Source Project.[2] It was originally created by Google as a competitor to Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News.[3] AMP is optimized for mobile web browsing and intended to help webpages load faster.[4] AMP pages may be cached by a CDN, such as Cloudflare's AMP caches, which allows pages to be served more quickly.[5][6][7]
AMP was first announced on October 7, 2015.[8] After a technical preview period, AMP pages began appearing in Google mobile search results in February 2016.[9][10] AMP has been criticized for potentially giving further control over the web to Google and other concerns.[11] The AMP Project announced it would move to an open governance model on September 18, 2018, and is part of the OpenJS Foundation as of October 10, 2019.[12][13][14]