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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/116.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 116

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

new Date().getTime();

2.1M/s

Date.now()

1.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new Date().getTime();	2,056,830 Ops/sec
Date.now()	1,632,024 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: