Topic: Performance

What Progressive Web Apps features should we expect Apple to support?… More

Apple has started development of service workers—the key technology powering Progressive Web Apps. More

A couple weeks ago, I received a polite inquiry from Colin van Eenige asking if I would help him with a graduation project by answering some questions about Progressive Web Apps. We exchanged a few emails. I answered his questions. More

Yesterday, I examined how The Washington Post’s Progressive Web App performs on iOS. Today, I want to take a look behind the scenes on the difficulties I had conducting that analysis. Instrumenting The Washington Post Often when organizations make… More

The Washington Post's Progressive Web App has seen near 5x increase in user engagement on iOS. But iOS doesn't support PWAs. How does that work?… More

Progressive Webs Apps versus native misses the point. Here is a simple case for Progressive Web Apps that even native app developers can agree with. More

Technical articles about Progressive Web Apps abound, but few tackle the question of why businesses should build Progressive Web Apps and why they should do so now. More

Part I of this series established that some of the challenges in building service workers for complex websites stem from having to accommodate page request variations. In this iteration, we’ll touch on how to handle similar variations in the… More

Google’s announcement of Android Instant Apps caused me to fear for the future of the web for the first time. I’ve participated in many native versus web debates over the years. We even contemplated becoming an iOS-only shop after… More

Michael Mahemoff‘s recent article on how Progressive Web Apps have Leapfrogged the Native Install Model reminded me of a video I discovered while researching my new Adapting to Input talk. I keep revisiting the video because it shows… More