Planet Web Solutions describes progressive web applications as nothing more than websites that get all the good vitamins. As an alien? PWAs are well-packaged responsive websites for viewing on mobile devices that provide a native application-like environment directly through a browser. You can install and access it directly from the home screen, making it easier to save to your device and helping you gain a much more user experience, such as mobile applications.
By combining websites and features with native applications, PWA can break the standard of OS dependency on devices. Unlike native applications, progressive web applications are more independent of operating systems or devices. They provide support for multiple devices/platforms and can be easily developed using HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
In addition, PWA is urged to blur the line between websites and mobile apps, reduce friction, and improve the user experience. At present, its widespread acceptance is limited by the browser’s capabilities. However, as browsers evolve to enable PWA features with technologies such as Service Workers and Push Notifications, PWAs will continue to grow.
Why Should You Care?
Some statistics can help you understand why progressive web applications can change with your difficulties.
- Following the launch of PWA, Thomas Kent reduced the immediate abandonment rate to 57% and increased organic revenues by 79%.
- Thanks to online market growth, PWA helped Debenhams increase sales by 40% and conversations by 20%.
- George, a leading British clothing brand, has reduced the page load time for buyers by 3.8 times according to PWA best practices. The company also saw a 31 percent increase in conversations and a 20 percent increase in pageviews per visit.
- Caroline of CocoSign shares how her lack of involvement in the website has allowed her to improve PWA. The result is a 25% increase in conversations and faster loading, allowing users to spend more time online.
Advantages of PWA
Cost-effective:
With an average smartphone application development cost of around $ 50,000, it is easier for website owners to implement progressive web applications on their existing websites to save on budget and maintenance.
Easy to Maintain:
It would be best not to forget about production and maintenance costs before building the application. The maintenance fee for each mobile device or web application can be estimated at 20% of production costs.
Because creating progressive web applications is lower than the cost of native applications, maintenance costs may be the same (including testing mobile applications).
Smaller and Lighter:
The size of progressive web applications is smaller than that of native applications. Twitter applications on Android and iOS devices are huge, but for PWAs such as Twitter Lite, it is approximately 600 KB.
Low Bounce Rate:
According to Google, most users jump when the page loads for more than three seconds. The average bounce rate for a progressive web application is about 42 percent. Progressive web applications are lighter, and page load speeds are better than native applications, improving search engine results.
Offline Support:
The most important part of progressive web applications development services is easy to access, even offline. It stores information and allows the user to retrieve data using the Smart Cache feature.
