The fact that performance is vital to the profitability and success of any online venture is no secret to anyone. Therefore a new standard called Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) is being utilized by websites across industries to improve their performance.
The front-end technology, supported by Google, aims at delivering a high level of performance regardless of device or network condition. This is achieved by enhancing PWAs with the native-app qualities which are fast, reliable and engaging. Although there is a lot of attention given to it, the concept of PWAs is quite new to most people.
In order to understand the difference between PWAs and conventional responsive websites, you might look at some good examples.
Here, in this article, we are going to provide you with an impressive list of Progressive Web App examples across a variety of industries so that you can get a taste of the new web technology yourself.
Most Progressive Web Apps of 2022
1). Starbucks
Starbucks built a PWA of the ordering system on the web with the aim of providing accessible, user-friendly online ordering to all of its customers. This PWA of the ordering system delivers a similar experience to their existing native app. To put it simply, the Starbucks PWA allows its customers to customize their orders, browse the menu, and add items to their carts without requiring any access to the internet. They can view the location-specific pricing and place their order as soon as they are online.
It is great for on the go customers who frequently go in and out of connectivity throughout the day as most of the PWA is available without a network connection. Starbucks has already seen significant results by launching the new ordering PWA. The app has become a web app favourite among users as it is 99.84% smaller than the existing Starbucks app. Consequently, the number of web users placing orders each day has doubled with most desktop users now ordering at about the same rate as the mobile users.
2). Debenhams
You cannot miss out on Debenham when talking about brands that are transforming the experience of shopping in the fashion industry. The far-sighted UK brand got an idea, although their old website had increased mobile traffic, that the conversion rate on mobile wasn't growing. Therefore, they finalised that it was time for a digital transformation, or else their digital and overall growth would slow down soon. The brand looked for ways this problem could be solved so that the users can have a smooth experience, especially on mobile devices.
They found their answer in PWA. Their effort paid off after they transformed their old website into a PWA. By removing blocks on a customer journey, they have improved the customer experience. In summation, Debenhams have witnessed a 40% growth in mobile revenue and a 20% increase in conversions.
3). BMW
Be it with their cars or their website, BMW proves yet again that they aren't going to shy away from new technology. The brand sought to provide quality and engaging content reflecting its values, in order to improve the customer experience.
Users definitely get a 'wow' experience with the new BMW's PWA. The videos and the high-resolution images are the first things that strike the eye, and the web loads pretty much instantly with all of these features (considered 4 times faster than the old site). Following the establishment of the PWA, their reports also showed other impressive numbers: 50% growth in mobile users, 4X increase in people clicking from the homepage to a BMW sales site and 59% more site visits compared to the old site.
4). Flipboard
Flipboard allows the readers to keep up with all news, topics, and events that they care about being the most popular social magazine in the world. The platform brings stories and news from around the world together in magazine format based on the interests of the user. The users of Flipboard can follow the preferred sources and save the images, stories, and videos into their own Flipboard magazines to be read later or shared with others.
Flipboard is also one of the best examples of Progressive Web Apps for online news. To deliver a slick and fast browsing experience, the PWA minimizes data usage. Flipboard was a mobile app until the launch of their PWA, presenting only on mobile devices. Therefore now, the PWA allows Flipboard to deliver a similar experience to the PWA, making it available for desktop users as well.
5). Soundslice
Soundslice is the music education software of the modern era that revolutionizes music learning and the experience of practising music. PWA is used by the company to deliver the finest music learning and creating experience.
With an innovative music player, the process of learning a piece of music becomes easier and more efficient. Users can learn a piece of music while reading and hearing it on any device be it a large screen desktop or a phone. Also, music teachers can now utilize the tool to create interactive music lessons. Soundslice also has a store that sells lessons and transcriptions with a focus on learning from recordings.
6). 2048 Game
Originally released as a free app for iOs and Android in 2014, the puzzle game 2048 immediately became a viral hit with more than 4 million users in less than a week after launch. The game is pretty simple and quite addictive.
The game is defined as "Candy Crush for math geeks". Here, you have to combine blocks with the same numbers to ultimately total 2048. At 2048game.com, an official PWA version is made available so that the players can get instant access from any web browser. It is hard to tell the PWA apart from its native app counterpart with its smooth transitions and full-screen view. Adding to this, the 2048 PWA can be fully played in offline mode.
7). MakeMyTrip
Another great example of PWA is the MakeMyTrip.com site. There are about 8 million visitors to India's leading travel company's site on a monthly basis, out of which two-thirds are accounted for by mobile traffic. Thus they developed a PWA leading to a reliable, fast and polished mobile-web experience.
By reducing page-load times by 38%, the new PWA experience has tripled its conversion rate. MakeMyTrip saw a 160% growth in user sessions and lowered the bounce rate by 20% compared to their previous mobile site.
8). Uber
To offer a comparable booking experience to the native mobile app, the Uber web has been rebuilt from scratch as a PWA as the company expands to new markets. The purpose of the Uber PWA is to make car booking viable on low-speed networks. The PWA is great for riders on low-end devices built around the concept of an app-like experience that is accessible on all modern browsers, which may not be compatible with the native Uber app.
Uber has enabled quick ride requests regardless of location, network speed, and device by bringing the native experience in a super-lightweight web app. It can be loaded within 3 seconds on 2G networks as the core app is 50KB only.
9). Kopa (Padpiper)
Previously called Padpiper, Kopa is the platform to help students easily find trusted housing for school terms and internships, and allow the landlords at the same time to quickly find suitable tenants for their spaces.
Presently, the platform supports 9000 schools and has more than 100 listings on its PWA. The landlords and the listing reviews are verified to save the students' time in finding the best fit. It can also connect the students to other students working around them.
10). Pinterest
Pinterest started its new mobile web experience from the ground up as a PWA with a focus on international growth. They had found that 1% of their mobile users were converting into sigh-ups, logins or app installs, due to the poor performance on mobile.
After they realized this, they used the opportunity to better the conversion by using PWA technology. And now, the time spent on the website is up by 40% as compared to the previous record.
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