10 Successful Progressive Web App Examples

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10 Successful Progressive Web App Examples
When you are looking in for guidance in for the
most appropriate app development, PWAs make up a
considerable place for themselves. Progressive
web apps had been long known as the most
lucrative ways of probable investments. Also,
there are numerous successful web app examples to
be presented before you as inspirational
doses. What is a Progressive App or PWA?
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via futuremind Preference of Progressive Web
Apps over usual websites had been a hot
discussion over past years. There may be hardly
any people unaware of this concept. Encompassing
modern web APIs, this is a new technology that
operates to deliver app like experience to the
users, right in the browsers. This lets you
develop dynamic, fast-loading apps that can be
operated on full-screen modes, a place on home
screens and also push notifications. These web
apps are known to be set away from the need of
downloads, installs, and updates and are hence
hassle-free experiences for users. Unlike a
native app, web apps make access to services
easier. Why are Progressive Web Apps Preferable?
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• via livewirelabs
• PWAs can be perfect to help businesses increase
  page visits, conversions, and session lengths.
  Businesses that are short of budgets to invest in
  mobile apps, can secure an appreciable place in
  the run with these web apps. There are many other
  benefits associated with a progressive app which
  include the following
• Faster Loading
• Improved Performance
• Engaging platform for users
• Less Data Usage
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• Some Successful Progressive Web App Examples
• There are many appreciable examples of web apps
  over the web. Here are some of them, have a
  look
• 1. AliExpress

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• via progress
• Owned by the Alibaba Group, AliExpress is a
  popular e-commerce site which converted its
  mobile app to a PWA, a few years back. Earlier,
  AliExpress operated its mobile site to convert
  non-app users to app users. Also, then their
  websites performance was not efficient enough
  on mobiles. After that investment in a cross-
  browser Progressive Web App was decided. This
  indeed turned out to be a great decision,
  enhancing user experience over AliExpress
  website. AliExpress witnessed incredible results
  after these changes. These included
• 2x page visits per session
• 104 increase in conversions among new users.
• 74more time spent per session.
• 2. Twitter Lite

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• via gadgets.ndtv
• Twitter decided and finally rolled out, its
  Progressive Web App experience as Twitter Lite.
  This created a default mobile web experience for
  worldwide users. Twitter turned out to be an
  improved and engaging experience for about 80 of
  users on mobile. It's working now was faster
  than before therefore users residing in areas
  with flaky network conditions, had been really
  served well with this.
• Twitter Lite supports instead loading of pages,
  and low data usage by considering image
  optimization with cached data. Also, push
  notifications made the platform, even more,
  engaging for the users. Mentioned below are the
  major results from Twitter Lite
• 20 percent less bounce rate
• 75 percent increased tweets
• 65 percent pages increase per session.
• 3. Flipkart

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• via medium
• Known to be one of the largest e-commerce sites
  in India, the implementation of Flipkart Lite,
  led to great changes in the undertaking. In
  comparison to the performance of both Flipkarts
  website and native app, Flipkart Lite was able to
  extend streamlined and faster experiences to
  mobile users. In 2015, though Flipkart had shut
  its website and continued in the run with an
  app-only strategy, it did not work
  up-to-the-mark. An engaging web experience was
  still missing as most of the users browsed with
  a 2G or any other flaky networks.
• Flipkart Lite is now one of the best examples of
  web apps for other e-commerce undertakings.
  Mentioned below are the boosts that were brought
  up with this PWA
• 70 percent rise in conversions
• 3x more time spent on site
• 3x less data usage
• 40 percent more re-engagement

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4. Forbes

• via minnisell
• Forbes is one among the topmost business
  magazines in the U.S. featuring excellent
  article with respect to marketing, finance,
  investment, and other industry related topics. A
  PWA had been developed by this business magazine,
  in order to enhance user experience. With the
  launch of the web app, page loading time
  improved to a great extent, and engagement rates
  doubled with the push notification feature.
  Major results of the change are as under
• 43 percent more per session users
• 100 percent increased engagement rates
• 20 percent increase in impressions per page
• 6x more readers completing the articles.
• 5. BookMyShow

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• via dhakatimes24
• Known to be the largest ticketing company in
  India, BookMyShow, developed their web app in
  the year 2017, replacing the website. This
  resulted in increased conversion and broadened
  the customer base. Before the web app also, about
  85 percent of the transactions were known to
  take place via mobiles. However, increasing
  bounce rates remained to be a problem for the
  company due to unacceptable loading time and
  less optimized user experiences.
• Also, there had been issues related to high data
  consumption with the BookMyShow app. All of
  these issues were, however, solved by the web app
  as it created less burden on the phone memory
  capabilities or storage. Here are some of the
  results that were noted after the development of
  the web app
• 80 percent increased conversions
• 54 x smaller in size than the Android app
• 180x smaller size than iOS app
• Checkout within 30 seconds
• 6. Pinterest

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• via medium
• Working like a virtual corkboard Pinterest had
  been one of the most popular applications. There
  are plenty of images, videos, recipes, and
  products for the users. However, it was noticed
  that conversions were moving slow and only 1
  percent of users actually went in for sign-ups or
  mobile app installs. Therefore, the development
  of Progressive Web Apps was taken up as the next
  step.
• Subsequently, it led to faster working, greater
  user engagement, more time spent on mobile web
  and more ad clickthroughs. This is indeed one of
  the best web app examples. Some major results in
  this relation are mentioned as under
• 40 percent more time spent on mobile web pages
• 44 percent increase in user-generated ad revenues
• 50 percent raised ad clickthroughs
• 60 percent increased user engagement
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• 7. OLX
• Connecting local buyers and sellers and operating
  online marketing in over 40 countries, OLX is
  known to be the largest ads dictionary in India
  and Pakistan. Being over 90 percent of its users
  on mobile, it was important to have a check on
  efficient mobile user experience. Most of the
  conversions were recognized from

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• native apps and at the same time, mobile web was
  known to bring up higher bounce rates because of
  slow loading pages and ads.
• OLX progress web app led to an increase in user
  engagement with push notifications and worked
  much similar to the native app. An immersive
  app-like experience was therefore accessible to
  users even on the mobile website.
• Mentioned below are the results that were noticed
  with the use of OLXs
• progressive web app
• 146 percent increased CTR on Ads
• 250 percent more re-engagement
• 23 percent reduced time requirement for an
  interactive page
• 80 percent less bounce rates
• 8. Lancôme

via xdesign With international presence and
performance, Lancôme is a French luxury
cosmetics brand. Despite the greatly increased
number of mobile users, Lancôme noticed fewer
conversions with its mobile site. Mobile commerce
being the growing trend of the time, it was then
considered to improve the user experience with a
perfect mobile web platform. The web app reduced
bounce rates, increased conversion, and user
engagement on the site with its interesting
features. The change worked like a charm to
bring up amazing results including the ones
mentioned below
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• 17 percent more conversions
• 15 percent less bounce rates
• 51 percent increased mobile sessions
• 84 percent less time taken for an interactive
  page
• 8 percent conversions on recovered carts.
• 9. Settled

• via settled
• Helping buyers and sellers for homes,
  Settled.co.uk is a real estate firm. It was
  found that most of the users for the website
  accessed it through mobiles. Therefore, there
  was an immense need to focus on building a
  platform that is engaging, faster and reliable.
  A Progressive app was hence brought up and hence
  increased mobile transactions and conversions
  along with hassle-free experience for the users.
• Mentioned below are the results of the changes
• 8 increased mobile transactions
• 23 more conversions
• 14 decrease in total cost per conversion
• 13 less bounce rates
• 10. MakeMyTrip

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• via developers
• MakeMyTrip is one of the leading travel firms in
  India. In order to avail a faster and better
  mobile web experience for the users, the company
  decided to develop its progressive web app. The
  firm had been through high drop-off rates and
  customer acquisition costs. However, the
  implementation of web app resulted in better user
  experience just like that of the native app
  improving business insights for the firm. The
  results of these changes are as below
• 3x more conversion rates
• 160 increased user sessions
• 38 less page loading issues
• Future of progressive web apps in web development
  seems to be long-lasting and successful. Being
  cost efficient and perfect performers, web apps
  would prove to be a great option to boost
  business activities. There are many more perfect
  web app examples in the queue however, the ones
  mentioned here can be the best referred for you
  to get inspired.