Run results for: Native XHR vs jQuery Ajax

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; ZTE A2017U Build/NMF26V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 64

Operating system: Android 7.1.1

Device Platform: ZTE A2017U

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Native XHR	1151.5 Ops/sec
Native XHR 2	1208.4 Ops/sec
Native fetch.then	1468.4 Ops/sec
jQuery Ajax	580.2 Ops/sec
jQuery Ajax (Async)	655.5 Ops/sec
jQuery Get	587.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get 2	642.3 Ops/sec
jQuery getJSON	626.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"><script>

Script Preparation code:

function showResult(data) {
    console.log(data);
}
var newUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis";

Tests:

Native XHR
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open("GET", newUrl, true); xhr.onreadystatechange = function() { if (xhr.readyState === 4) { showResult(xhr); } } xhr.send();
Native XHR 2
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onload = showResult; xhr.open("GET", newUrl, true); xhr.send();
Native fetch.then
var request = fetch(newUrl).then(showResult);
jQuery Ajax
var request = $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: newUrl, success: showResult, data: null });
jQuery Ajax (Async)
var request = $.ajax({ type: "GET", async: true, url: newUrl, success: showResult, data: null });
jQuery Get
var request = $.get(newUrl, showResult);
jQuery Get 2
var request = $.get(newUrl).done(showResult);
jQuery getJSON
$.getJSON(newUrl, null, showResult);

Run results for: Native XHR vs jQuery Ajax

Native XHR

Native XHR 2

Native fetch.then

jQuery Ajax

jQuery Ajax (Async)

jQuery Get

jQuery Get 2

jQuery getJSON