1 April 2022
Has Service Worker usage increased on this website over the past four years?
It's been almost four years since I started collecting data on Service Worker usage and support on this website and in this article I show the details.
Service Workers
If you've ever wanted to learn more about Service Workers, look no further than this list of articles based on the basics of Service Workers and how you can leverage them in your next web project.
4 February 2019
Brewfather - Progressive App Review
I look under the hood of Brewfather's progressive web app to explore how Workbox caching and Firebase offline data supported a practical homebrewing tool.
8 November 2018
Determining Service Worker Support for your Site
Use feature detection to measure service worker support among your visitors, with a historical Google Analytics example to help assess the value of a PWA.
16 May 2018
How to display a "new version available" for a Progressive Web App
Add a new-version notification to your progressive web app, then activate the waiting service worker and refresh the page to load updated cached files.
8 March 2016
Service Workers: Save your User's Data using the Save-Data Header
A service worker example that checks the Save-Data request header and returns lighter content when users have asked to reduce their data usage.
25 January 2016
Create a really, really simple offline page using Service Workers
Cache a simple offline HTML page with a service worker and return it when navigation fails, giving visitors something useful when their connection drops.
17 December 2015
Getting started with the Service Worker Toolbox
See how Service Worker Toolbox's routing and caching helpers made offline-capable pages easier to build and debug in this historical library walkthrough.
2 November 2015
Service Workers: Dynamic Responsive Images using WebP Images
Use a service worker to inspect Accept headers and serve WebP images where supported, keeping responsive image markup simpler and JPEG fallbacks intact.
3 August 2015
Push Notifications on the Web - Google Chrome
A while ago I built a fun side project on Github to keep a collection of typography links and tools that caught my eye. There are a number of people that follow the project on Github, but every time I make a change or add a new link, I normally