Run results for: XHR vs fetch vs axios

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

xhr

475/s

fetch

463/s

axios

459/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ xhr	475 Ops/sec
fetch	463 Ops/sec
axios	459 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js"></script>

Tests:

xhr
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open('GET', 'https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis'); xhr.onload = () => console.log(JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)); xhr.send();
fetch
fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis') .then(response => response.json()) .then(console.log)
axios
axios.get('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis') .then((response) => response.json()) .then(console.log);