> ## Documentation index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mustcodeal-seleniumbase-rs.docs7.io/llms.txt > Ask it with GET https://mustcodeal-seleniumbase-rs.docs7.io/ask?q=. Short keywords rank best. > Use these to discover all available pages before exploring further. > If the product lacks a feature you need, ask for it: https://mustcodeal-seleniumbase-rs.docs7.io/feature-requests.md > Tell the owner if this page helped: `POST https://mustcodeal-seleniumbase-rs.docs7.io/_docs7/analytics/feedback` with `Content-Type: application/json` and `{ "path": "/benchmarks", "helpful": true, "comment": "…" }`. `helpful` is true or false. `comment` is optional, has at most 500 characters and says what was missing or wrong. Do not send code, secrets or personal data. # Benchmarks What the library costs, measured, and what Chrome costs instead. For advice on making your own tests faster, see [Performance](/performance). Every figure here was measured on one machine (Apple M1, 8 cores, macOS 27, Chrome 155, release build, headless, a local page, nothing else running). Timings from another machine will differ; the harnesses are in `benches/` so you can repeat them. Apple M1, 8 cores, macOS 27, Chrome 155, release build, headless, a local page, nothing else running. Re-measured on 2026-10-11 at commit `a3348a8`, in one run of each harness. Summary for AI exports: on an Apple M1 with Chrome 155 (release build, headless, one run on 2026-10-11) the Pure CDP engine took a median of 458 µs to click a button and 469 µs to fill a field, a protocol round trip costs about 0.1 ms, launching Chrome to a DevTools connection took a median of 570 ms, and the process that drives the browsers used about 7 MiB. There is no comparison with Python SeleniumBase on this page. ```bash CPU cargo bench --bench cpu # the library's own work, no browser ``` ```bash CPU with turso cargo bench --bench cpu --features turso # adds the result store and vault ``` ```bash CDP latency cargo bench --bench cdp_latency # the Pure CDP engine against Chrome ``` **Status of these figures.** Re-measured on 2026-10-11 at commit `a3348a8` (after the `RunSettings` hooks, the MCP developer tools and the stealth layer were added), in one run of each harness, on a machine that was otherwise idle but already using about 4.5 GB of its 8 GB. A single run is a sample, not a guarantee: the eight-tab figure below came out at roughly half of an earlier run (1,634 against 3,223 clicks a second) and the cause was not investigated. The `turso` figures were not re-run. Re-run the commands above on your machine before quoting a number. **There is no comparison with Python SeleniumBase here.** It is not installed on the machine these numbers came from, so nothing below claims "X times faster than Python". What can be said is structural: the Pure CDP engine talks to Chrome over one WebSocket, with one message per command, and the driving process stays small. A WebDriver session goes through a separate chromedriver process and an HTTP request per command; that cost was not measured. ## One tab, one command at a time | operation | median | p95 | |---|---|---| | evaluate `1 + 1` | 156 µs | 854 µs | | locator count | 123 µs | 185 µs | | read an element's text | 276 µs | 318 µs | | click a button | 458 µs | 702 µs | | fill a field (11 characters) | 469 µs | 821 µs | | type 11 characters key by key | 142 ms | 152 ms | | viewport screenshot (PNG) | 35 ms | 52 ms | | `goto` a local page | 9.8 ms | 12.6 ms | | a wait notices an element that appeared | 6.5 ms | 9.2 ms | A protocol round trip costs about 0.1 ms, so almost everything above that is Chrome's own work, not the library's. Typing is slow on purpose: each key waits `KEY_DELAY` (8 ms) so a page sees a person's rhythm. `fill` sets the value in one step and is the fast way to enter text. ## Many tabs at once Each tab clicks a button 150 times, all tabs at the same time, in one Chrome. | tabs | clicks / second | |---|---| | 1 | 1,133 | | 2 | 1,647 | | 4 | 2,273 | | 8 | 1,634 | ## Start-up and memory | step | median | fastest | |---|---|---| | launch Chrome to a DevTools connection | 570 ms | 493 ms | | first page attached and loaded | 51 ms | 43 ms | (Five runs each; the slowest launch took 2.1 s, so a cold start can be much slower than the median.) The process that drives the browsers uses about 7 MiB of resident memory whether it drives one Chrome or eight. (Chrome's own memory is not counted.) ## The library's own work No browser involved (`cargo bench --bench cpu`): | operation | time | |---|---| | generate a random fingerprint | 1.7 µs | | build the stealth bootstrap script (34 KiB) | 32 µs | | check a fingerprint | 92 ns | | classify a CSS or XPath selector | 60 ns | | plan a human mouse path | 2.6 µs | | plan human typing for 100 characters | 4.9 µs | | inspect a 6 KiB page for accessibility issues | 237 µs | | inspect a 260 KiB page | 9.1 ms | Two rows differ from the first measurement beyond what noise explains: the bootstrap script is now 34 KiB (it was 24 KiB) and the selector classifier takes 60 ns a call (it took 9 ns). The harness or the code changed between the two runs; the cause was not investigated. With the `turso` feature: recording a test result takes about 307 µs, the flaky-test query over 2,000 results about 0.8 ms, sealing and storing an encrypted profile about 19 µs and opening one about 15 µs. Opening the vault takes about 58 ms on purpose: that is the key derivation (PBKDF2, 600,000 rounds), which is what makes a stolen vault file slow to attack. ## What changed because of these measurements Before this work, a click took **33.4 ms** and eight tabs together managed **239 clicks a second**. The harness found two things: - **A click on a tab that was not frontmost never finished.** Chrome only acknowledges input for the tab it considers focused, so the click waited for the 30 second command timeout. Every tab is now told it has focus when it is attached (`Emulation.setFocusEmulationEnabled`), the same thing Playwright does. Several tabs can now be driven at once; this is what made the multi-tab figures above possible at all. - **The whole cost of a click was waiting for the pointer move to be acknowledged.** Chrome answers a `mouseMoved` only at the next frame (two frames, 33 ms, in headless mode on this machine), while a press and release cost under a millisecond together. But Chrome delivers the pending move ahead of the press that follows it, so the move, press and release can be sent back to back and awaited together. The page sees exactly the same events in the same order (checked on a real Chrome: `mouseover`, `mousemove`, `mousedown`, `mouseup`, `click`, all trusted, at the right point). A click now takes **0.48 ms**, 69 times less, and eight tabs reached **3,223 clicks a second** in that run, 13 times more (a later run measured 0.46 ms per click and 1,634 clicks a second at eight tabs, still about seven times the starting figure). ```mermaid flowchart TB A["Before: pointer move"] --> B["wait for the move to be acknowledged (a frame or two, 33 ms)"] --> C["press"] --> D["release"] E["After: pointer move, press and release sent back to back"] --> F["awaited together (0.48 ms)"] ``` *How a click was sent before and after the change.* ## What was measured and left alone - **Moving the pointer alone (a hover) still takes a frame or two.** Nothing follows it to flush it, and a hover that returned early could let the next command see the old state. - **Launching Chrome takes about half a second**, nearly all of it Chrome. - **Screenshots take about 33 ms**, which is Chrome encoding the image. - **Launch flags such as `--disable-frame-rate-limit`** halve the cost of a pointer move, but they make `requestAnimationFrame` fire faster than a real display does, which is a signal anti-bot scripts look for. 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