Run results for: .includes() vs .test() vs .match() vs .indexOf()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.0.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
text.includes()	15055900.0 Ops/sec
regex.test()	22119030.0 Ops/sec
string.match()	23439040.0 Ops/sec
string.indexOf()	24127510.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var url='https://www.google.com/matchthis/other/args'

Tests:

text.includes()
url.includes('matchthis')
regex.test()
/matchthis/.test(url)
string.match()
url.match(/matchthis/)
string.indexOf()
url.indexOf('matchthis') >= 0

Run results for: .includes() vs .test() vs .match() vs .indexOf()

Compare different intra-string matching styles

text.includes()

regex.test()

string.match()

string.indexOf()