Is AMP necessary?

[danielnash]

I know Accelerated Mobile Pages provide website to load fast in mobile devices, even over slow networks, but I want to know is that necessary? If I do not use AMP then my website can’t rank high?

[SEO.Ninja]

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.AMP doesn’t let extension mechanisms block page rendering. AMP supports extensions for things like lightboxes, instagram embeds, tweets, etc. While these require additional HTTP requests, those requests do not block page layout and rendering.

[Hostingsafety]

AMP is specially designed for mobile pages.
In order to meet expectation of mobile users, your website must load quickly and speedily which can be possible through designing AMP pages.

[ronaldallanp]

It depends upon the speed of your website. AMP is a project which aims to load websites in blazing fast. But if your website is really fast, why use AMP?

[n4098]

You can't say that without use of AMP you site can't get high rank. But if use AMP than it must get higher rank. Because AMP is the goggle feature to make your site mob friendly and easily navigated with lots of features.

[prometheas]

Yes it is necessary ,

By using AMP techniques in Web design, the advantages are

1. Reduced loading time.

2. Helps in search engine ranking results.

3. Increase visibility.

4. Better User Experience.

[sree31]

Google shows AMP results in special carousel above search results, so it's helpful for driving traffic.  However AMP is not a ranking factor. If your website has AMP, it will rank better because of it will have high load speed, which is a ranking factor.