Run results for: .includes() vs .test() vs .match() vs .indexOf()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/120.0.6099.101 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 120

Operating system: iOS 16.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

regex.test()

10.4M/s

string.indexOf()

10.4M/s

text.includes()

9.4M/s

string.match()

7.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.test()	10,445,250 Ops/sec
string.indexOf()	10,368,297 Ops/sec
text.includes()	9,432,426 Ops/sec
string.match()	7,783,570 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var url='https://www.google.com/matchthis/other/args'

Tests:

text.includes()
url.includes('matchthis')
regex.test()
/matchthis/.test(url)
string.match()
url.match(/matchthis/)
string.indexOf()
url.indexOf('matchthis') >= 0

Run results for: .includes() vs .test() vs .match() vs .indexOf()

Compare different intra-string matching styles

text.includes()

regex.test()

string.match()

string.indexOf()