Run results for: XHR vs fetch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

fetch

2K/s

xhr

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ fetch	1,698 Ops/sec
xhr	1,644 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)