Run results for: XHR vs fetch vs axios

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

xhr

2K/s

fetch

2K/s

axios

747/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js"></script>

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