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WordPress Progressive Web App Optimization

Advanced Progressive Web App (PWA) and Service Worker optimization toolkit. Cache strategy, offline browsing, preloading, Google Lighthouse PWA validation and more.

This plugin is removed from WordPress.org. Read the story here.

Installation

Github Updater

This plugin can be installed and updated using Github Updater (installation instructions)

WordPress WPO Collection

This plugin is part of a Website Performance Optimization collection that include CSS, Javascript), HTML, Web Font, HTTP/2 and Security Header optimization.

The WPO optimization plugins provide in all essential tools that enable to achieve perfect Google Lighthouse Test scores and to validate a website as Google PWA, an important ranking factor for Google's Speed Update (July 2018).

Google Lighthouse Perfect Performance Scores

The WPO optimization plugins are designed to work together with single plugin performance. The plugins provide the latest optimization technologies and many unique innovations.

JSON shema configuration

The WPO optimization plugins are based on JSON schema based configuration that enables full control of the optimization using JSON. This provides several great advantages for website performance optimization.

Read more about JSON schemas.

Google PageSpeed vs Google Lighthouse Scores

While a Google PageSpeed 100 score is still of value, websites with a high Google PageSpeed score may score very bad in Google's new Lighthouse performance test.

The following scores are for the same site. It shows that a perfect Google PageSpeed score does not correlate to a high Google Lighthouse performance score.

Perfect Google PageSpeed 100 Score Google Lighthouse Critical Performance Score

Google PageSpeed score is outdated

For the open web to have a chance of survival in a mobile era it needs to compete with and win from native mobile apps. Google is dependent on the open web for it's advertising revenue. Google therefor seeks a way to secure the open web and the main objective is to rapidly enhance the quality of the open web to meet the standards of native mobile apps.

For SEO it is therefor simple: websites will need to meet the standards set by the Google Lighthouse Test (or Google's future new tests). A website with perfect scores will be preferred in search over low performance websites. The officially announced Google Speed Update (July 2018) shows that Google is going as far as it can to drive people to enhance the quality to ultra high levels, to meet the quality of, and hopefully beat native mobile apps.

A perfect Google Lighthouse Score includes validation of a website as a Progressive Web App (PWA).

Google offers another new website performance test that is much tougher than the Google PageSpeed score. It is based on a AI neural network and it can be accessed on https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com

Description

This plugin is a toolkit for Progressive Web App and Service Worker optimization.

The plugin provides in a complete solution for service worker based performance optimization and enables to validate a website as a Progressive Web App (PWA) in Google Lighthouse.

The service worker can be configured with multiple cache strategies (cache first, network with fallback and event based), offline content, smart preloading, preload on mousedown to improve navigation speed and many more options to enable offline browsing and improved navigation performance.

The plugin provides a Web App manifest.json editor to easily optimize the web app configuration.

Additional features can be requested on the Github forum.