Run results for: Date.now() vs new Date().getTime()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:121.0) Gecko/121.0 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 121

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

5.7M/s

new Date().getTime();

4.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	5,672,149 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	4,219,977 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: