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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps built and enhanced with modern APIs to deliver enhanced capabilities, reliability, and installability while reaching anyone, anywhere, on any device, all with a single codebase.

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489websites

use it — 19.1% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#5of 34

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 141)

67public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

Used on 19.1% of the websites we scan — and those sites load in 3.9 s, a little quicker than the typical 4.3 s.

19.14% of all websites we track run PWA▼ 0.03 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,560 websites · refreshed weekly

How PWA sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

54PerformanceLowaverage site: 5091AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 10% faster than the average site

PWA sites
3.9 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most PWA sites load in 2.7–5.6 s. Home page weight: 2.4 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 59 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud

  • Amazon Web Services24%
  • Google Cloud10%
  • Cloudflare10%
  • Fastly7%
  • Other48%
United States 48%Canada 12%Netherlands 7%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software65%
Business Services6%
Educational Resources5%
Software as a Service (SaaS)5%

Share of 66 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

50% of graded sites pass

6of 12 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not PWA. 12 public sites graded so far.

How PWA sites are built

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with PWA on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 489 PWA sites that run the whole stack.

3 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

PWA + Funding Choices + Google Sign-in

3.7%18 of 489 sites
#2

PWA + Vue.js + Nuxt.js

2.7%13 of 489 sites
#3

PWA + Sentry + Google Sign-in

2.2%11 of 489 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 489 PWA sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager62%Google Analytics58%Facebook Pixel19%Linkedin Insight Tag12%OneTrust17%Funding Choices14%Cart Functionality16%Microsoft Advertising15%Prebid10%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentOnline storeAdvertising

Similar tools in its category

Miscellaneous: 141 tools known, 34 seen in our scans

Open Graph1,528 sitesAlternativeWebpack939 sitesAlternativeHTTP/3860 sitesAlternativeRSS324 sitesAlternativePopper74 sitesAlternativeLottieFiles67 sitesAlternativePyScript59 sitesAlternativePrism18 sitesAlternativeModule Federation625 sitesUsed togetherBabel31 sitesUsed togetherPermutive20 sitesUsed togetherVite13 sitesUsed together

How websites combine PWA with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 24Integrates with another 15Needs another tool 2

Questions about PWA

How many websites use PWA?
We found PWA on 489 of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (19.1%). 67 of them have a public status page.
What is PWA often used with?
Among the websites we scan, PWA is often found alongside Nginx (19% of its sites), Funding Choices (13.9% of its sites), Sentry (12.3% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to PWA?
Other miscellaneous tools we recognize include Open Graph, Webpack, HTTP/3, Module Federation.

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