Run results for: localStorage vs sessionStorage vs Reading a Hardcoded Array Speedtest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.114 YaBrowser/22.9.1.1081 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 22

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Control	739660032.0 Ops/sec
localStorage	1309407.9 Ops/sec
sessionStorage	1493658.5 Ops/sec
Read Array	1678942.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

localStorage.setItem('foo', 'bar')
sessionStorage.setItem('foo', 'bar')
var ARR = ['bar'];

Tests:

Control
var FOO = 'bar';
localStorage
var FOO = localStorage.getItem('foo');
sessionStorage
var FOO = sessionStorage.getItem('foo');
Read Array
var FOO = ARR[Math.floor(Math.random() * ARR.length)]

Run results for: localStorage vs sessionStorage vs Reading a Hardcoded Array Speedtest

Control

localStorage

sessionStorage

Read Array