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PWA Minimus: A minimal PWA checklist
May 29, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Now that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are supported on all major browsers, and are becoming first-class installable citizens on mobile and desktop platforms alike, and with the launch of Google’s PWA .app domain, we thought it would be useful to outline a PWA checklist to meet the minimum requirements of a PWA. The result is... Read More
Latest DeviceAtlas report shows feature phone use still widespread
May 15, 2018, by James Kielty
The latest DeviceAtlas Mobile Web Intelligence Report explores statistics for smartphone usage around the globe. Feature phones The data showed that 13% of all traffic from feature phones came from devices released in 2011. Of the rest, those released in 2005, when Nokia was king of the hill, were responsible for a disproportionately high volume... Read More
Sharing buttons and the Web Share API
May 15, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We’ve written a bit in the past about the negative impact of sharing buttons on performance. What if there was a better way? Let’s talk about the Web Share API. What is the Web Share API? The Web Share API offers something of an alternative. It’s an API developed by Google to expose the native... Read More
ZTE market share – how much “suspect tech” is out there?
May 16, 2018, by Martin Clancy
Updated: On the back of ZTE’s announcement that “the major operating activities of the company have ceased”, many are wondering just how much of the market ZTE commands. We looked the data for the answers... Read More
A standards-based AMP is fulfilling its goals
April 11, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Significant steps are being taken by the AMP team to address the main criticisms that are repeatedly cast at the project. Plans are in place, or at least forming, to allow non-AMP technologies to enjoy the same search results page benefits as AMP pages. Is it too good to be true? Let’s take a look... Read More
