If you subscribe to the notifications of some websites, you may sometimes see a strange notification with this content: “This site has been updated in the background”. What does that mean? And if you are the website owner, how can you prevent that notification?
Web Push Notifications
What happens to the push subscription when you clear data from browser?
A user visits a website and subscribes to the notifications. Then, after some time, he opens the browser settings and clicks “clear data” in order to remove the history and all the data stored by the browser on the device. What happens to the notifications in this case?
Best UI / UX for subscribing users to web push notifications
In order to optimize the number of people that subscribe to your notifications, you need to use the right user interface (UI). It’s also important to design a good user experience (UX), so that the notification prompt is perceived as something useful for the user and not as an annoyance. In this post we’ll analyze different approaches and user interfaces that are useful to ask users to subscribe to web push notifications.
Bell icon for push notifications and subscribe button
Are you looking for a bell icon to represent push notifications or to create a subscribe button on your website?
There are many free and open source resources where you can get an high-quality bell icon, in different formats, without the need to draw it manually.
Is it possible to display newlines inside web notifications?
You can include newlines and line breaks inside the body of web notifications.
Styling web push notifications
Is it possible to customize the style of web push notifications?
Web Push Notifications: multiple accounts on the same browser
How can you manage push notifications when a user uses multiple accounts on the same browser? What can you do if multiple users use the same device / browser?
Web Push: wake up a phone from deep sleep with urgent notifications
Is it possible to instantly deliver a web push notification to notify a phone call or to deliver any other time-sensitive notification?
Web push notifications from iframe
Is it possible to subscribe the users to web push notifications from an iframe?
Add analytics to web push notifications
How can you collect analytics for web push notifications (e.g. clicks)?
Difference between PushManager subscribe and getSubscription
These two methods defined by the Push API are used to get the push subscription from the browser. What is the difference between them?
Web Push Notifications: store the subscription in the backend / database
When a user is visiting your website and subscribes to notifications, you get a push subscription, which must be stored somewhere (in a database) in order to send notifications to that user.
Web Push: how to check if a push endpoint is still valid
How can you verify that a push subscription is still valid (and not invalid or expired)? How can you detect if a user has unsubscribed and the subscription is no longer valid?
Chrome Push Notifications: This site has been updated in the background
What can you do if you receive that notifications? What does it mean? How can you fix it?
Push API: detect browser support (feature detection)
How can you find out if the current browser supports the Push API and Web Push Notifications?
Web Notifications: difference between icon / image / badge
What is the difference between Notification.icon, Notification.image and Notification.badge?
Web Push: send a notification to all users
Sometimes you just need to send the same notification to all users that have subscribed to your website notifications. Let’s see how to achieve that.
Change the default Chrome icon (browser logo) for notifications
Is it possible to replace the Chrome logo / browser logo on notifications with the website logo?
Web notifications in incognito mode
Is it possible to subscribe to notifications when surfing in incognito mode or with private browsing (e.g. on Chrome, Firefox)?
Schedule or delay a web notification (like a reminder)
How can you create a web notification now that is displayed some time later?