Historical Performance Data aggregated from 8 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 8 runs
typeof -> boolean
2.2M/s
typeof -> string
2.1M/s
typeof -> function
2.1M/s
typeof -> object
2.1M/s
Object.prototype.toString.call -> object
774K/s
Object.prototype.toString.call -> string
773K/s
Object.prototype.toString.call -> boolean
772K/s
Object.prototype.toString.call -> function
761K/s

Fastest: typeof -> boolean (2.9x faster)

View exact numbers
  • typeof -> boolean: 2,217,571 ops/sec
  • typeof -> string: 2,145,464 ops/sec
  • typeof -> function: 2,131,187 ops/sec
  • typeof -> object: 2,127,069 ops/sec
  • Object.prototype.toString.call -> object: 774,166 ops/sec
  • Object.prototype.toString.call -> string: 772,825 ops/sec
  • Object.prototype.toString.call -> boolean: 772,244 ops/sec
  • Object.prototype.toString.call -> function: 761,454 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Browser OS Engine User Agent When Created
Firefox 141 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0 one year ago
Chrome 135 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome Mobile 131 Android Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome 131 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome 131 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Firefox 133 Ubuntu Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0 one year ago
Firefox 131 Mac OS X 10.15 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0 one year ago
Chrome 129 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome 129 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Safari 17 Mac OS X 10.15.7 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15 2 years ago
Chrome 122 Mac OS X 10.15.7 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago
Chrome Mobile 121 Android Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 2 years ago
Chrome 120 Mac OS X 10.15.7 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago
Firefox 115 Linux Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0 2 years ago
Chrome 119 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago