Run results for: cookies vs sessionStorage

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0

Browser: Firefox 51

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
cookies	20926.2 Ops/sec
sessionStorage	1455127.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

cookies
if (document.cookie.split('=').length > 1) { window.x = 1; } else { window.x = 0; }
sessionStorage
if (sessionStorage.getItem('a') === 'b') { window.x = 1; } else { window.x = 0; }