PWAs: The Best of Both Worlds

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PWAs The Best of Both Worlds
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Mobile apps have become so prevalent in recent
years that companies practically feel obligated
to develop one. But often, this is not the best
use of money, time, and resources. Sometimes a
website that functions well on mobile devices is
all thats necessary. However, progressive web
apps (PWAs) serve as a technological Reeses
peanut butter cup, a delicious combination of the
speed and offline performance of native apps with
the web-based perk of not requiring installation
or storage. In certain ways it kind of has the
best of both worlds feel to it, says Hernan
Santiesteban of digital marketing agency Great
Lakes Web. It has all the benefits of an app
without all the headaches of having to download
stuff.
The term progressive web app was coined in 2015
by a pair of developers at Google, but the
concept has been around even longer. As more and
more web traffic came from mobile devices,
companies such as the always-cutting edge Amazon
began embracing the speedier, sleeker technology
PWAs had to offer. You can use any technology to
build a progressive web application, says Wayne
Ma, Sr. Software Engineer at Katalyst
Technologies. He points to the similar functions
between the native Amazon app and viewing Amazon
in a mobile browser. You dont see the
difference if you use the app or you do not. The
question, then, for companies and consumers why
even bother using the app?
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• Benefits of PWAs
• Concentrated and cheaper development
• When creating a traditional web app, designers
  must account for both Android and iOS systems and
  functionalities. With a PWA, however, youre
  basically building a website, says Santiesteban.
  So you are using HTML, you are using CSS, and
  you are using JavaScript. Its the same
  languages.
• Two components essential in developing a PWA are
  a service worker and a manifest file. Well dive
  into each of these below. It must also run on a
  secure HTTPS server.
• Faster and offline performance
• According to Google research, 53 of users
  abandon mobile sites that take more than three
  seconds to load. PWAs minimize that time by
  caching or avoiding repetitive elements such as
  logos that can slow things down. You can decide
  what aspects of your app are going to be
  downloaded into the mobile device so that theyre
  always there, says Santiesteban. Every time you
  launch it, you dont have to send a request to
  the web server to get that downloaded content.
  So this makes it a high-speed experience for the
  user because all these graphics are already
  there. They dont have to be downloaded over a
  potentially slow network. Some PWAs run up to
  seven times faster than pages that are not
  optimized.

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• What we can do is to program your PWAs to have
  a service worker inside of the product, says Ma.
  The service worker intuitively tracks what has
  loaded and modifies your continued web experience
  from there. It will decide which part of the
  site will be replaced, and its ready to replace
  that part. The service worker can even deduce
  your potential next move on the sitesay, the
  following page of product listingsand prepare
  that page in the background, so that when youre
  ready to move on, those results are waiting for
  you.
• Minimal storage space and updates
• As a PWA does not need to be installed on a
  mobile device, it requires fewer resources to
  operate properly. Users will undoubtedly
  appreciate this alternative to native apps. It
  also means that updates are implemented naturally
  without requiring users to take the frustrating
  step of manually updating them or requiring a
  wi-fi connection.
• Users can still create shortcuts to PWAs if they
  see fit, and iOS app developers and android app
  builder are encouraged to promote and make this
  option convenient. These detailsthe app icon,
  title, theme, etc.are stored in the manifest
  file.
• Increased sales
• Ultimately, the reason for embracing any new
  technology is to increase the bottom line, and in
  the case of PWAs, the results speak for
  themselves. AliExpress more than doubled its
  conversion rate after adopting a PWA. A Chicago
  Best Western saw a 300 revenue increase.
  Customers are far more likely to engage with a
  faster, more convenient application, and numbers
  like those are hard to ignore.
• Plus, unlike regular websites, PWAs allow for
  push notifications that alert customers and keep
  them fresh in their minds.

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