Run results for: XHR (responseType: json) vs fetch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 140

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

fetch

6K/s

xhr

5K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ fetch	5,942 Ops/sec
xhr	4,544 Ops/sec

Tests:

xhr
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.responseType = 'json'; xhr.open('GET', 'https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis'); xhr.onload = () => console.log(JSON.parse(xhr.response)); xhr.send();
fetch
fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis').then(response => response.json()).then(console.log)