Benchmarks for popular Node.js HTTP client libraries.
These benchmarks use Nginx in a docker container to serve static files of several sizes.
Versions Tested
node@11.10.0axios@0.18.0got@9.6.0superagent@5.0.5isomorphic-fetch@2.2.1node-fetch@2.5.0ky@0.10.0ky-universal@0.2.0
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose run benchmark sh
$ node index.js
Module OPS RME Samples
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http.request with default agent 1754 ±4.09% 114
http.request with http 1.1 1903 ±2.48% 117
http.request with http 1.0 1932 ±2.29% 116
http.request with http 1.0 and nodelay 2025 ±1.73% 121
axios 1507 ±2.39% 102
got 1148 ±3.40% 75
superagent 1779 ±1.95% 105
isomorphicFetch 1495 ±3.00% 96
nodeFetch 1424 ±3.35% 97
ky-universal 472 ±1.69% 27
request 1437 ±3.92% 93
Module OPS RME Samples
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http.request with default agent 1795 ±1.96% 104
http.request with http 1.1 1748 ±1.64% 103
http.request with http 1.0 1781 ±1.97% 106
http.request with http 1.0 and nodelay 1820 ±1.48% 103
axios 1316 ±2.74% 81
got 1105 ±2.60% 76
superagent 1615 ±2.41% 109
isomorphicFetch 1362 ±2.59% 89
nodeFetch 1391 ±2.10% 87
ky-universal 447 ±1.71% 28
request 1388 ±2.41% 85
Module OPS RME Samples
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http.request with default agent 1344 ±2.35% 81
http.request with http 1.1 1377 ±2.18% 82
http.request with http 1.0 1417 ±2.38% 86
http.request with http 1.0 and nodelay 1363 ±2.33% 89
axios 1073 ±2.48% 68
got 962 ±2.39% 67
superagent 1391 ±2.25% 84
isomorphicFetch 1099 ±2.72% 73
nodeFetch 1099 ±1.92% 69
ky-universal 426 ±2.06% 27
request 1069 ±3.68% 67
Module OPS RME Samples
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http.request with default agent 805 ±1.77% 47
http.request with http 1.1 866 ±1.92% 52
http.request with http 1.0 891 ±1.51% 51
http.request with http 1.0 and nodelay 815 ±2.10% 51
axios 534 ±2.79% 36
got 529 ±1.55% 32
superagent 800 ±1.88% 46
isomorphicFetch 564 ±1.92% 33
nodeFetch 555 ±1.49% 37
ky-universal 309 ±1.46% 19
request 607 ±4.22% 39
Module OPS RME Samples
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http.request with default agent 278 ±2.46% 17
http.request with http 1.1 289 ±1.51% 18
http.request with http 1.0 299 ±1.95% 18
http.request with http 1.0 and nodelay 285 ±1.36% 18
axios 219 ±1.42% 14
got 232 ±2.23% 14
superagent 280 ±2.09% 17
isomorphicFetch 205 ±1.22% 13
nodeFetch 206 ±1.31% 12
ky-universal 181 ±1.71% 11
request 212 ±2.02% 13
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