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Unleashing the Power of Akamai’s Distributed and Edge Cloud Services for PWAs
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have revolutionised how users interact with websites, providing a seamless, app-like experience directly within the browser. To maximise the potential of PWAs, leveraging a robust infrastructure is crucial. Akamai’s Distributed and Edge Cloud services offer unparalleled support for PWAs, delivering numerous benefits that enhance performance, reliability, and user engagement. Here’s how:
1. Improved Load Times
Caching at the Edge
Akamai’s Edge and Distributed Cloud services store static assets and pre-rendered pages at edge locations, strategically placed data centres closer to the end users. Being closer to those end users significantly reduces the time it takes for users to load content, ensuring that users receive the information they need almost instantaneously.
Proximity to Users
Being closer to users reduces latency and significantly improves consumer sales. Research shows that a decrease in page load time by just one-tenth of a second can boost conversion rates by 8% for retail sites and 10.1% for travel sites [link]. Furthermore, Walmart reported a 1% increase in revenue for every 100ms improvement in load time. These statistics highlight…
