Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) deliver amazing web experience to the users by improving the performance, engagement, and accessibility. PWA’s are fast, reliable, engaging, and deliver an app-like user-experience to the users. As Progressive Web Apps are already supported by top browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave Browser, and Safari, they are considered as the next generation of the websites.
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) are one of the latest web technologies and has gained great momentum in the IT industry. If you are building for the web, I’m sure that PWA is the latest ‘buzzword’ that has been added to your work vocabulary. It’s not surprising because PWA has made the far-fetched dream of installing web apps on phone for real.
Why Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps are user experiences that have the reach of the web, and are:
Reliable
Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions.
Fast
Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky scrolling.
Engaging
Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.
This new level of quality allows Progressive Web Apps to earn a place on the user's home screen.
"Progressive Web Apps are now also supported on the desktop!"
How to build a Progressive Web App?
Building a high-quality Progressive Web App has incredible benefits, making it easy to delight your users, grow engagement and increase conversions.
Worthy of being on the home screen
When the Progressive Web App criteria are met, Chrome prompts users to add the Progressive Web App to their home screen.
Work reliably, no matter the network conditions
Service workers enabled Konga to send 63% less data for initial page loads, and 84% less data to complete the first transaction!
Increased engagement
Web push notifications helped eXtra Electronics increase engagement by 4X. And those users spend twice as much time on the site.
Improved conversions
The ability to deliver an amazing user experience helped AliExpress improve conversions for new users across all browsers by 104% and on iOS by 82%.
FEATURES OF PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS
PWA works for EVERY BROWSER, yes, regardless of what device you are using, on which browser you are surfing.
CONNECTIVITY INDEPENDENT
PWA is equipped with service workers technology, enabling these apps to function with flaky networks or even offline
UP-TO-DATE
One more benefit of being built using service workers tech, PWA is always up-to-date and fresh.
RESPONSIVE
PWA fits any screen ( be it a tablet, mobile, pc or laptop) giving you an escapade from tilting you phones over and again.
ENGAGING
Now you are a notification away from new information related to your searches. Whenever there’s new content available, PWA will notify you instantly.
SECURE
Served on a secure channel with HTTP, PWA is safe from third-party interference.
DISCOVERABLE
PWAs allow content searching through search engines, making them search optimized.
INSTALLABLE
Suppose you search on a web, and go to a link, and it shows a pop-up saying Add to Home Screen, now this is a PWA, which will be added to your home screen upon your permission and lets you visit it over and again without the need to install this app from any app store.
SHAREABLE
As the saying goes Sharing is caring. Now sharing is much easier with PWA as all you have to do is send a brief link.
Advantages of progressive web apps
Here are some of the important points that would help you understand the advantages of progressive web apps better:
Offline access
The offline access is going to be the most powerful aspect of PWAs as these apps can be used with a low-quality internet and even offline. For those who are wondering as to how would that be possible, it will be achieved by caching the information and serving it to you offline. However, it will be quite necessary to use service workers on the part of the users in order to capitalize on it.
Better safety
The advent of progressive web apps is believed to bring about a massive elevation in the safety and protection of sensitive data online especially for the apps related to online banking or online shopping. It will be achieved by serving connection over secure protocol HTTPS only to encrypt all the communications between the browser and the web apps.
Always on the latest version
Is it annoying every time you are asked to get any of your mobile applications updated to the latest versions? However, this doesn’t hold true for progressive web apps as they work more like websites and are automatically updated. Users can always have the latest versions of these apps without having to download them.
Fast loading
It is not really difficult to visualize the way users normally respond to slow page loading. A slow page loading tends to get the users irritated and leave the site. Users aren’t going to have any page loading related issue with progressive web apps as these apps loads at an unimaginably fast speed every time except for the first time wherein the speed would be average.
PWA Technology Stats & Facts
- Full responsiveness and browser compatibility
- Connectivity independence
- App-like interface (These apps mimic navigation and interactions of native apps.)
- Push notifications ( If used as a part of a good messaging strategy, push notifications can keep customers interested, motivating them to open and use an app more.)
- Self-updates & Secure
- Discoverability and easy installation
BookMyShow’s new Progressive Web
App drives an 80% increase in conversions
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Nikkei achieves a new level of quality
and performance with their multi-page PWA
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App drives an 80% increase in conversions
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