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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

16.4M/s

new Date().getTime();

10.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	16,424,480 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	10,120,690 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: