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> Consider adding a link at the top of your AMP page, giving user an option to visit the original post

Why should they want to read the post again? The only viable option is to have links to other posts on your site, or maybe a link to the comments.

By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile.

About analytics: I don't know if those accesses don't show on Google Analytics (I really don't) but what if one uses Piwik? Is there any way to get a report of the access?

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> By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile.

It's to counteract the fact that in some browsers on mobile, it will just show "google.com" in the URL bar, the added bar shows the actual website. (Obviously this is a problem introduced by the whole caching thing but that's why it's there I guess)

> By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile.

Maybe they just want people to get used to this bar on top, and then start A/B testing it with ads and see what reaction they get.

> Why should they want to read the post again

Or if they want to copy paste an url to email (perhaps that's too advanced a feature...), it looks like a "let me google that for you" site, not what they're actually sending. Yay.

"By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile."

It has a slide-out animation to it?

I assume it's an effect that plays when one taps the back arrow in the bar. I'm using Opera on my phone, no animation there, so I can only guess.

The are page transitions. Considering that Google controls both the source and destination page I'm sure they can make one without stealing space on screen. That annoys the user more than the owner of the content.

And if the user has a browser that doesn't support page transitions, it's only a waste of screen space.

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