What are Progressive web Apps?
Progressive web apps are mobile apps that are distributed through the web rather than through the app store and play store.
It's the combination of the look and feel of an app with the ease of programming of a website. These apps make it easy for your users to access your content, and happy users are engaged users, and engaged users increase your revenue.
Rapid Speed
They load faster than mobile websites, even with limited internet availability, ensuring your users always have the best experience.
Advantages of Progressive Web App
Integrated SEO
Increase your business visibility by your app's presence in search engine results. Optimize your SEO and take advantage of a level of discover-ability far from what the stores can offer. Add custom schema and sitemap for better ranking.
App First
Initially thought out for mobile, Progressive Web Apps offer a perfect user experience, by bringing mobile development codes to all other types of screens. While PWA's do boast some of the most useful characteristics websites have to offer, they take it a step further than your average site. Their ability to incorporate the native features of the device, such as the camera or GPS, opens the doors to a level of engagement that just can’t be found elsewhere.
Multi-Platform
Progressive Web Apps are multi-platform. They adapt perfectly to any screen they're used on mobile, tablet, or desktop. They are just as good in terms of design as they are in features.
Automatic Updates
Skip the middleman of needing approval by multiple operating systems and push new versions of your app directly to your users. They are the perfect union between an App and a website.
Run Offline and Anywhere
Advancements in mobile tech means that progressive web apps work in areas of limited or absent internet availability. Since PWA is HTML-5 based, they instantly load on any operating system.
No Download Needed
Progressive Web Apps don't need to be installed to be visited, which therefore allows you to make your content easily accessible and eliminate the constraint of having to install the app, as in the case of native apps. The option to install the app on the home screen is available regardless of how the app has been accessed. PWA may appear as an icon along with all the other downloaded apps doesn't mean that it was downloaded from a store, it just indicates that user agreed to the pop up offer to save it as a home screen icon.
Safe & Secure
Progressive Web App provide the familiar app experience users demand without sacrificing performance or security. Your Web App also comes with a pre-installed SSL Certificate.
Why you need a Progressive Web App?
Here is what twitter replied when we asked them about the responses of progressive web app:
" X.com (formerly Twitter) needed a way to engage their 320 million monthly users with a fast, reliable, and secure mobile experience. Since most of their users were mobile based, the task of constructing a native app, distributing it, and maintaining it was prohibitively difficult.
So they built a Progressive Mobile App called Twitter Lite. "
Here's what happened:
- Pages per session increased 65%
- Tweets sent increased 75%
- Bounce rate decreased 20%
- Average load time decreased 30%
- User data consumption decreased as much as 70%
- Average boot up time is under three (3) seconds global users.
- As a result of this resounding success, as of 2017 Twitter Lite is the default mobile web experience for all global users.
