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Why PWAs?

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Why PWAs?

- [Narrator] According to research on the Google developer's website, 53% of users will abandon a site if it takes longer that three seconds to load. And also, once that site is loaded, it better be fast. More people than ever are using the internet, but those users are on differing network speeds, different types of devices, and we need to be sure and optimize for all of them. That's where PWAs come in. You might want to create a progressive web application if your app should be installed on the home screen on the users phone, if you want it to work reliably over varying networks, and they found that PWAs often improve conversions, if you're selling something or if you're collecting data from your users. PWAs are also platform agnostic, so you can invite your users or customers to download the app on any device without the complications of downloading an app. There's no app store, and there's typically less storage space required. Also if you're not a native developer, you can still…

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