Run results for: jQuery AJAX vs Fetch API

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery test case	11473.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS test case	17144.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js'></script>

Tests:

jQuery test case
$.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: "http://vanilla-js.com/path/to/api", data: {'banana': 'yellow'}, success: (data) = {}, });
Vanilla JS test case
const sendAjax = (url, data, callback) => { fetch(url, { method: 'POST', body: new URLSearchParams(data), }).then((response) => { const contentType = response.headers.get("content-type"); if (contentType && contentType.indexOf("application/json") !== -1) { return response.json().then(data => {callback(data)}); } else { return response.text().then(text => {callback(text)}); } }); } sendAjax('http://vanilla-js.com/path/to/api', {'banana': 'yellow'}, (data) => {});