How PWA helped Ele.me speed up it's mobile website?

Ele.me is the biggest food ordering and delivery company in mainland China. It serves 260 million registered users from over 200 cities all around China, and has over 1.3 million restaurant listings. With 99% of its users ordering food on mobile, Ele.me set out to improve its mobile web experience, making it faster and more reliable in flaky connections, all while relying on the core technical model of a multi-page app to accommodate their operational needs.

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Why PWA

Since Ele.me used to receive a large portion of there food orders from mobile devices, it became necessary for them to ensure a smooth jank free experience on mobile devices even if the end user was using an unstable or slow internet network.

Results after PWA implementation:

• Loading time decreased by 11.6% across all pre-cached pages.
• Loading time decreased on average by 6.35% across all pages.
• Time-to-consistently-interactive dropped to 4.93 seconds on a 3G network on first load.

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