Speeding up websites: Anyone implementing Google AMP, or adopting AMP design principles?

Still on TNEW v6: I'm in the process of this.  No plans for AMP at the moment, but I'm a little weary of maintaining another version of our site.  We did some performance tuning in our somewhat bloated template by removing some un-needed scripts, stylesheets, images, etc. 

So far I've shed about 3 seconds off our page load time with these tweaks.  Our biggest bottleneck at the moment is the amount of API calls required on the TNEW event listing, but we have bypassed that by using our marketing site instead.

In process:  -  The second phase of this is moving images and our stylesheets into a high-speed CDN instead of our web server.  This reduces the load on that server and potentially creates a speed boost in load times for those images.

Still on TNEW v6: I'm in the process of this.  No plans for AMP at the moment, but I'm a little weary of maintaining another version of our site.  We did some performance tuning in our somewhat bloated template by removing some un-needed scripts, stylesheets, images, etc. 

So far I've shed about 3 seconds off our page load time with these tweaks.  Our biggest bottleneck at the moment is the amount of API calls required on the TNEW event listing, but we have bypassed that by using our marketing site instead.

In process:  -  The second phase of this is moving images and our stylesheets into a high-speed CDN instead of our web server.  This reduces the load on that server and potentially creates a speed boost in load times for those images.