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by ziont 2685 days ago
The first experience is crucial, according to Google 51% of your visitors will leave if they don't see content within the first 5 seconds.

Then you tell people, yeah but its okay to do this the first time, then the second time they come to your PWA, it will load super fast!

Except it's not at all fast because it turns out cellular network is spotty so not everyone experiences/reports the same experience, it turns jaded users who feel discriminated because they don't have a thousand dollar phone that can render their PWA jank free.

There's an Application in PWA somewhere I'm sure of it.

You are right about conversion rates but I was specifically talking about online shoppers for a specific niche to demonstrate the extreme case where people are fine with what they have and rather not see changes they need to . relearn.

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But PWAs don't slow down page loads. I feel like I'm going insane that I have to point this out again and again. The first load of a PWA is the load of a web page, nothing more, nothing less. After that, the PWA can cache assets for next load. If the page loads slowly it's because it's a crappily made page, not because it's a PWA.