How AMP solves mobile web performance

There are many factors that can contribute to poor web performance. AMP is able to solve performance issues and deliver pages instantly because it follows web performance best practices. But AMP is not magic: anyone can build fast pages without AMP if they follow web development best practices. This is a point that the AMP team has made on several occasions: an AMP page won't be faster than a hand-tooled page, if you know what you're doing. It will be faster than the average mobile webpage, however: AMP is about bringing best practices to the masses.

In addition to the best practices that it implements, AMP imposes restrictions that developers must follow to guarantee a certain baseline performance.