Run results for: Split vs Regex but with URLs

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Splitting	4993935.0 Ops/sec
Regex	746145856.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "test|https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/tech/trump-electronics-china-tariffs/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc#openweb-convo|0-1,5-6,99-10101"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("|"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = '(.*?)\|(.*?)\|(.*)' var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];

Run results for: Split vs Regex but with URLs

Splitting

Regex