Web push notifications and are similar to the app-based push notifications that you get from different apps on iPhone and Android phones. In this article, I am going to discuss how to send web push notifications from your blog or website. We will also discuss the best practices in push notifications and the pros & cons of this communication channel.
How Does it Work?
If you enable push notifications for your website, visitors to your site will see an announcement like this on their browser. Push notifications mostly work on Chrome and Firefox. Safari and Opera browsers have limited support and only a few services have it.
In Chrome, this is how the permission request looks. If the visitor clicks on ‘Allow,’ then you have permission to send a notification to that user. I am using the tool called MoEngage for to enable this. MoEngage supports Chrome and Firefox as of now, with support for other browsers coming soon.
Your visitors need not be on your site to get the notifications! Even if the browser is running in the background, your subscribers will receive this notification if they have subscribed to you. If they click on it, the URL will open on their browser and they will be able to view your web page.
There are many tools and services which help you send push notifications. I am using MoEngage because they have advanced segmentation capabilities that many others do not have.
How Does it Work?
If you enable push notifications for your website, visitors to your site will see an announcement like this on their browser. Push notifications mostly work on Chrome and Firefox. Safari and Opera browsers have limited support and only a few services have it.
In Chrome, this is how the permission request looks. If the visitor clicks on ‘Allow,’ then you have permission to send a notification to that user. I am using the tool called MoEngage for to enable this. MoEngage supports Chrome and Firefox as of now, with support for other browsers coming soon.
Your visitors need not be on your site to get the notifications! Even if the browser is running in the background, your subscribers will receive this notification if they have subscribed to you. If they click on it, the URL will open on their browser and they will be able to view your web page.
There are many tools and services which help you send push notifications. I am using MoEngage because they have advanced segmentation capabilities that many others do not have.
