Run results for: Dompurify vs sanitize-html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Sanitize HTML

18K/s

DOMPurify

3K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Sanitize HTML	17,507 Ops/sec
DOMPurify	3,448 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/sanitize-html/1.27.5/sanitize-html.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/dompurify/2.2.7/purify.min.js"></script>

Tests:

DOMPurify
const testString = ` Welcome to safeland <a href='javascript:alert(1)'>This is fun</a> <img src=x onerror=console.log(1)> ` const result = DOMPurify.sanitize(testString)
Sanitize HTML
const testString = ` Welcome to safeland <a href='javascript:alert(1)'>This is fun</a> <img src=x onerror=console.log(1)> ` const result = sanitizeHtml(testString)