Run results for: RegEx.test vs. String.includes checking if https:// or http:// exists

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

String.includes

12.6M/s

RegEx.test

6.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.includes	12,580,739 Ops/sec
RegEx.test	6,926,050 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "https://www.measurethat.com";
var regex = /^https?:\/\//;

Tests: