Run results for: jQuery AJAX vs Fetch API

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Browser: Firefox 139

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanilla JS test case	3,492 Ops/sec
jQuery test case	1,653 Ops/sec

Tests:

jQuery test case
$.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: "http://vanilla-js.com/path/to/api", data: {'banana': 'yellow'}, success: (data) = {}, });
Vanilla JS test case
const sendAjax = (url, data, callback) => { fetch(url, { method: 'POST', body: new URLSearchParams(data), }).then((response) => { const contentType = response.headers.get("content-type"); if (contentType && contentType.indexOf("application/json") !== -1) { return response.json().then(data => {callback(data)}); } else { return response.text().then(text => {callback(text)}); } }); } sendAjax('http://vanilla-js.com/path/to/api', {'banana': 'yellow'}, (data) => {});