WaPo using PWA to power its mobile website

Sep 6, 2016 WSJ "story":http://www.wsj.com/article_email/washington-post-unveils-lightning-fast-mobile-website-1473152456-lMyQjAxMTI2MTA5NjYwNTY3Wj

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The Washington Post says it has a new “lightning-fast” mobile website, which it plans to roll out gradually before the end of the year.

The publisher said the new site, based on Google technology called Progressive Web Apps, will load mobile webpages in under a second, compared with around three seconds for its current mobile site.
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Here's the _real_  story.

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Mr. Prakash said *70% of the Post’s traffic now comes from mobile devices.* 

The mobile website is used far more frequently than the Post’s app, with *63% of overall traffic using its mobile website specifically and 7% on the app.*
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Whoa. That's much higher than I expected. And it's good news for the web. It might also support the idea that most phone users only use a few apps with Facebook's app being the most used app by a long way.

My simple blog site can load fast. This post contains no images.

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