Run results for: XHR vs fetch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0

Browser: Firefox 56

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
xhr	963.2 Ops/sec
fetch	918.0 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)