Run results for: XHR vs fetch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Browser: Firefox 119

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

xhr

15K/s

fetch

10K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ xhr	14,751 Ops/sec
fetch	9,674 Ops/sec

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
fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis').then(response => response.json()).then(console.log)