Building a faster web experience with the postTask scheduler
When was the last time you opened a page on a website and tried to click on something multiple times for it to work? Or the last time you swiped on an image in a carousel and it stuttered and shifted around unnaturally? While this type of experience happens far…
How does Airbnb track and measure growth marketing?
Introduction Airbnb’s mission is to “Create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.” This message is delivered to people all around the world through marketing, e.g., See What’s Possible When It’s Made Possible by Hosts. It helps Airbnb connect guests and hosts…
Progressive Web Apps, UX and Engagement
In the past few years, Web Applications and Smartphone based Mobile Applications have played a…
Experimentation & Measurement for Search Engine Optimization
Our San Francisco headquarters has it all, from comfy nooks to sunlit views. It’s the… For many of our potential guests, planning a trip starts at the search engine. At Airbnb, we want our product to be painless to find for past guests, and easy to discover for new ones. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving our site — and more specifically…
Universal links for Android and iOS
Sharing between platforms should always work Mobile apps have given a huge amount of good things to the human race, but at the same time, they have broken the internet. Instead of easy-to-understand links to sites which can be copied and shared, now you have to tell people what app to use to access which content. …
A one year PWA retrospective
The idea of building a “Progressive Web App” (PWA) is not new, but its definition has changed with the emergence of key technologies like service workers. Now it’s finally possible to build great experiences in a mobile browser. Being an early adopter can…
How we increased engagement using automatic personalized copy testing
Think about the last time you visited a website. Was there a word that helped draw you in? Now think about how that might be different if you spoke a different language, were a different age or grew up in a different part of…
Feast with Friends: Group Orders, Now on Mobile
Food is meant to be shared. Whether it’s with family, friends, or colleagues, there’s nothing better than sitting around a table and enjoying a meal together. For more than two years, DoorDash has offered a group ordering feature on the web. Group ordering allowing anyone…
Making Grocery Shopping Faster on Web
We released Grofers’ web platform about two months back. This post describes a few performance improvements that we have achieved in recent times. Background To bring about more user engagement and open the most straightforward user acquisition channel, we released our web platform to make it possible for…
Outage of the Sentry
Yes. Prezi recently suffered two site outages that prevented people from accessing their prezis for a total of almost four hours. It caused a lot of people serious problems, embarrassment, and stress. We’re sorry, and we owe everyone not just an apology but also an explanation. However, the pun is appropriate…
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