The features introduced by PWA help close the gap between the native App experience and the web on mobile devices, by giving web pages access to functionality traditionally only available on native Apps.
This includes offline access and notifications, as well as giving easy access though an icon, without requiring the user to install an App from a store, nor breaking compatibility with older browsers.

Davide Leonarduzzi is a Customer Solutions Engineer in the gTech Ads team in Google London. In this role, he focuses on performance measurement and improvement of both advertising campaigns and mobile websites.
Prior to Google, Davide was working as a consultant for IT consulting firm Reply in Milan.
Davide earned a bachelor's and a master's degrees in Software Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, and a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.