Run results for: 2023 - xhr vs fetch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
xhr	18295.0 Ops/sec
fetch	16096.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

async function doAjax1() 
		{
			try 
			{
				const res = await fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis');
				const data = await res.json();
				console.log(data);
			} 
			catch (error) 
			{
				console.log('Error:' + error);
			}
		}

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
doAjax1();