Run results for: getCookie: for vs for...of vs indexOf vs find vs reduce

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
for...of - 1000 short cookies	30285.3 Ops/sec
IndexOf() - 1000 short cookies	674093.4 Ops/sec
find() - 1000 short cookies	29888.2 Ops/sec
reduce() - 1000 short cookies	7791.0 Ops/sec
for...of - 10 long cookies	319772.1 Ops/sec
IndexOf() - 10 long cookies	223254.5 Ops/sec
find() - 10 long cookies	317780.3 Ops/sec
reduce() - 10 long cookies	416867.5 Ops/sec
for - 1000 short cookies	30247.8 Ops/sec
for - 10 long cookies	319744.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='test'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let values1000 = [...Array(1000).keys()];
var documentCookie1000 = ''; // mock document.cookie string - 1000 SHORT VALUES
values1000.forEach(v => {
	documentCookie1000 += `${v}name=${v}some-unique-cookie-value-with=equal-sign; `;
})
documentCookie1000 += 'findMe=found-test-value-with=equal-sign; lastCookie=test-value';
console.log(documentCookie1000);

let values10 = [...Array(10).keys()];
var documentCookie10 = ''; // mock document.cookie string - 10 LONG VALUES
values10.forEach(v => {
	documentCookie10 += `${v}name=${v}511=RmKsfdVddsfsdmrAQi8UK_S8CF7Bsdfds=O9lh5lAa74bsuEu31d3hB-_3wcypj6fdssqWzo-DbjOKnHHL6bkiEt6dsfZHrEXiFuuKTq2kdlOtE9up4EFdsfsdk90XLwjT1Up7maWRYT8EHm3eluUoQ0KHLEjpSfjFjiY75b8XRHWuNMcw9j4vLaQU3CcfIY-GMRz9DhYF1dsfsdec8PeJj9Mg9do_7ziOcdsfdsDrmLXj3P69RWkIVMpXh_iYQ2bpPWW7zAq0Vqkdfdq7fqYZYsARIz57JXJwGnezDrLjbnFEJNnCfFW52jqHYJlfKpmdfdhPp9DZzfdDCoXDuQ1KRDRgAxmfukkZcMIbdOWcooD41lgezwxpaXXuvYrJTpJhJd5iifSd1STFyxMeQq6y9mIBuc-Q1FXVKqVzu1KmMvRozzqz3bt95zUKmEdGGUkdcPdE8n11cDMdJutpNhEm2gMVcKmKAcEtt-5qOCbOjmqdoFd-qdSF7b19v8Zdsfds8oOf5LPQjB8kU1WlwrEJ59KAkMEyEBjGfVZMkbvxdfdsaLxLgOHqEWrHZoZjrnMMEOgoarCviw7qCD4OqabPhdsfdsbh9UVwJelx_cVddfdsf9GetyLbPy1PFdfOgT; `;
})
documentCookie10 += 'findMe=found-test-value-with=equal-sign; lastCookie=test-value';
console.log(documentCookie10);

function getCookieFor(name, cookies) {
    const nameEQ = name + "=";
    const ca = cookies.split('; ');
    for(let i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
        const c = ca[i];
        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0) {
          const value = c.substring(nameEQ.length);
          return decodeURIComponent(value); // returns first found cookie
        }
    }
    return null;
}

function getCookieForOf(name, cookies) {
  const nameEQ = name + '=';
  for (const cookie of cookies.split('; ')) {
    if (cookie.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0) {
      const value = cookie.substring(nameEQ.length);
      return decodeURIComponent(value); // returns first found cookie
    }
  }
  return null;
}

function getCookieIndexOf(name, cookies) {
  const nameEQ = name + '=';
  const cookieStart = cookies.indexOf(nameEQ);
  if (cookieStart !== -1) {
    const cookieValueStart = cookieStart + nameEQ.length;
    const cookieEnd = cookies.indexOf(';', cookieValueStart);
    const value = cookies.substring(
      cookieValueStart,
      cookieEnd !== -1 ? cookieEnd : undefined
    );
    return decodeURIComponent(value); // returns first found cookie
  }
  return null;
}

function getCookieFind(name, cookies) {
  const nameEQ = name + '=';
  const foundCookie = cookies
    .split('; ')
    .find(c => c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0); // returns first found cookie
  if (foundCookie) {
    return decodeURIComponent(foundCookie.substring(nameEQ.length));
  }
  return null;
}

function getCookieReduce(name, cookies) {
  return cookies.split('; ').reduce((r, v) => {
    const [n, ...val] = v.split('='); // cookie value can contain "="
    if(r) return r; // returns first found cookie
    return n === name ? decodeURIComponent(val.join('=')) : r; // returns last found cookie (overwrites)
  }, '');
}

Tests:

for...of - 1000 short cookies
return getCookieForOf('findMe', documentCookie1000);
IndexOf() - 1000 short cookies
return getCookieIndexOf('findMe', documentCookie1000);
find() - 1000 short cookies
return getCookieFind('findMe', documentCookie1000);
reduce() - 1000 short cookies
return getCookieReduce('findMe', documentCookie1000);
for...of - 10 long cookies
return getCookieForOf('findMe', documentCookie10);
IndexOf() - 10 long cookies
return getCookieIndexOf('findMe', documentCookie10);
find() - 10 long cookies
return getCookieFind('findMe', documentCookie10);
reduce() - 10 long cookies
return getCookieReduce('findMe', documentCookie10);
for - 1000 short cookies
return getCookieFor('findMe', documentCookie1000);
for - 10 long cookies
return getCookieFor('findMe', documentCookie10);

Run results for: getCookie: for vs for...of vs indexOf vs find vs reduce

Performance comparison of 5 functions to get Cookie value from a document.cookie string.

for...of - 1000 short cookies

IndexOf() - 1000 short cookies

find() - 1000 short cookies

reduce() - 1000 short cookies

for...of - 10 long cookies

IndexOf() - 10 long cookies

find() - 10 long cookies

reduce() - 10 long cookies

for - 1000 short cookies

for - 10 long cookies