The State Of Progressive Web Apps Adoption By Developers

Are PWA preached or adopted by developers? Do they use these despite the lack of support on iOS? Here are some hints I gathered with polls the last few days.

David Dal Busco
ITNEXT
Published in
5 min readJun 21, 2020

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Following this week’s “Apple vs Hey” story I was curious to know if Progressive Web Apps, which can be seen as a solution to such issues, are mostly preached by developers or are actually already adopted too 🤔.

To answer my questions, I ran some polls on Twitter and learned some interesting facts and figures which I would like to share with you in this new blog post.

Limitation

Neither am I an expert in statistics nor am I an expert in running and interpreting polls. Moreover, the experiment happened on Twitter, the panel of answers were given by the people I can reach through this social network and therefore it might probably not be enough representative.

That’s why do not take anything you are about to read as granted. Please do see these figures and comments as hints, nothing more, nothing less.

Also please do note that I am a Progressive Web Apps aficionado. I can try to remain impartial but of course in case of equality, I might be more positive than negative 😉.

47% Of The Developers Do Not Use PWA

I am using almost on a daily basis, the Progressive Web Apps of DEV.to and I am now giving a try to the Twitter one too. But beside these, I do not think that I am using any others on my phone on a weekly basis. That’s why I was firstly interested by the question of adoption.

To my surprise, 47% of the developers are not using any PWA, installed on their phone home screen, on a weekly basis.

Even though I tend to think that probably the number should be lower in reality, as many developers are probably using PWA with their browser, this number is quite important.

Of course the main reason for such a rejection rate, as the next chapter will display, is the lack of proper support for PWA on iOS.

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