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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

31.9M/s

new Date().getTime();

27.6M/s

performance.now()

18.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	31,896,002 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	27,612,216 Ops/sec
performance.now()	18,625,492 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests:

Date.now()
timestamp = Date.now();
new Date().getTime();
timestamp = new Date().getTime();
performance.now()
timestamp = performance.now()