Hyvä vs. PWA: What’s better for your e-commerce?
Hyvä and PWA (Progressive Web Application). They are often mentioned in the context of modernizing and improving e-commerce. These two different technologies or approaches can be used for different purposes. Hyvä is a template for creating e-commerce websites, while PWAs are advanced web applications. What exactly are the differences between the two, when to use them and who are they suitable for?
What is Hyvä
Hyvä is a template for the Magento 2 e-commerce platform that is designed to provide a high level of performance and speed for websites. It has many integrated e-commerce features such as shopping carts, payment gateways and more. This frontend template has optimized code, which leads to faster page loads, less server load, and therefore lower costs of running the web server. And as we all know, speed matters. A lot…
Customer Centricity
Hyvä also offers many features that are designed to facilitate and improve the customer experience, such as quick filtering, order tracking, product comparison and more. The template is fully responsive, so you’ll be able to improve the conversion rate even for mobile visitors. With a wide range of payment, delivery and personalization options, it increases the likelihood of purchase, customer satisfaction and reduces marketing costs.
Who is it suitable for?
Don’t have a million-dollar budget? No problem. Hyvä is the ideal solution for any business looking for an easy-to-use and flexible platform to manage and optimize their online store. The template is designed to be faster and easier to implement, and thus much more affordable.
Hyvä may be the ideal choice if you are solving:
- slow loading pages
- complicated user interface
- low conversion rate
- developer overload
- limited budget
Benefits of Hyvä
- Faster page loading – by reducing the number of requests to the server
- Great performance – thanks to minimalist design and advanced technologies
- Simple and intuitive user interface for online store administration
- Responsive solution – improves CX on all devices
- Large user community – support for development and troubleshooting
Hyvä vs. PWA
Hyvä and PWA are two different technologies with different uses and objectives. While Hyvä is more of a powerful native template for Magento, so it focuses on speeding up the Magento frontend more than anything else, PWA (Progressive Web App) focuses on speed but also improves the user experience through mobile web app enhancements, new technologies and experimentation through a headless approach.
PWA is a web application that behaves like a native application. It allows users to easily access website content and features without downloading and installing native applications. PWA offers options such as offline mode, notifications, desktop installation and more, allowing you to create a user-friendly and responsive application.
If you are considering a (headless) PWA, the StoreFront X framework offers a solution. It is currently the fastest frontend headless PWA solution for Magento 2, whose great advantage is its flexible modular architecture that simplifies and speeds up deployment. With unmatched speed and full SSR (server-side rendering) for the best SEO, it is the ideal solution for clients with complex e-commerce stores who are constantly working on improving the performance of their business.
So the basic difference between Hyvä and PWA is that Hyvä is a template for the Magento e-commerce platform, while PWA is a technology or approach to building web applications.
| Hyvä | StoreFront X PWA | |
| Who is it for | Suitable for small to medium companies with extensive e-commerce requirements looking for a simple and quick to implement Magento frontend solution. | Suitable for medium and large companies that need a fast and responsive online store with advanced functionalities to maximize the shopping experience. |
| Difficulty of implementation | Compared to PWAs, it is easy, but at the cost of less flexibility. | Easy provided you use an accelerator such as StoreFront X. |
| Implementation costs | Relatively low, does not require licensing fees, but does require investment in development. | Low to medium, does not require licensing fees but does require investment in development. |
| Features | Similar or slightly limited compared to the native Luma template in Magento 2. | Extensive, including support for offline mode and notifications. |
| Headless | No. This is a native Magento template. | It is a ready-made open-source headless PWA framework. |
| Performance | High, thanks to minimalist design and advanced technologies like Alpine.js and Tailwind. | High, thanks to fast page loading and optimization for mobile devices. |
Who is PWA suitable for?
PWA is particularly suitable for those companies that want to provide an excellent user experience and do not want to embark on the development and subsequent maintenance of a full-fledged native application due to time and cost constraints.
A PWA may be the ideal choice if you:
- have increased traffic to your site from mobile phones
- work with omnichannel
- need to speed up your web application
- want to create an app-like user experience
- need to significantly improve user experience and conversion rates
- don’t have enough time and money to develop a native app
- want to include additional services and tools in your e-commerce solution
- want to experiment and evaluate experiments quickly using a data-driven approach
Benefits of PWA
- Improves the user experience. Gives customers an app-like feeling.
- It’s fast. It has improved caching so it transfers even less data and responds to user interactions even faster.
- It’s easy to install and replaces the mobile app. Users can install it for free with one click and it takes up only a little space on their device. Plus, it doesn’t distract users from current web activity and potential purchases.
- It also works offline, at least some of the features do.
- It improves user engagement with web-based push notifications. Visitors return more often and have better engagement metrics compared to regular users.
In conclusion…
So, if you are looking for a technology to build a modern e-commerce website, Hyvä may be a good choice. However, if you are looking for a way to provide a modern and fast user experience for web applications, PWA may be a better choice.