Performance comparison between Selenium and Playwright

playwright_timeit.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# pip install selenium playwright
# playwright install

import timeit
import time
import selenium
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options as ChromeOptions
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options as FirefoxOptions
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright


def selenium_chrome(repeat):
    options = ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument("--headless")
    options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
    options.add_argument("--js-flags=--expose-gc")
    for i in range(repeat):
        driver = Chrome(options=options)
        driver.quit()


def selenium_firefox(repeat):
    options = FirefoxOptions()
    options.add_argument("--headless")
    for i in range(repeat):
        driver = Firefox(executable_path="geckodriver", options=options)
        driver.quit()


def playwright_chrome(repeat):
    with sync_playwright() as p:
        for i in range(repeat):
            browser = p.chromium.launch()
            context = browser.new_context()
            page = context.new_page()
            browser.close()


def playwright_firefox(repeat):
    with sync_playwright() as p:
        for i in range(repeat):
            browser = p.firefox.launch()
            context = browser.new_context()
            page = context.new_page()
            browser.close()


def playwright_chrome_contexts(repeat):
    with sync_playwright() as p:
        browser = p.chromium.launch()
        for i in range(repeat):
            context = browser.new_context()
            page = context.new_page()
            context.close()
            page.close()
        browser.close()


def playwright_firefox_contexts(repeat):
    with sync_playwright() as p:
        browser = p.firefox.launch()
        for i in range(repeat):
            context = browser.new_context()
            page = context.new_page()
            context.close()
            page.close()
        browser.close()


repeat = 10
print(
    "Playwright Chrome:",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"playwright_chrome({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import playwright_chrome",
    ),
)
print(
    "Playwright Firefox:",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"playwright_firefox({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import playwright_firefox",
    ),
)
print(
    "Playwright Chrome (context):",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"playwright_chrome_contexts({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import playwright_chrome_contexts",
    ),
)
print(
    "Playwright Firefox (context):",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"playwright_firefox_contexts({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import playwright_firefox_contexts",
    ),
)
print(
    "Selenium Chrome:",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"selenium_chrome({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import selenium_chrome",
    ),
)
print(
    "Selenium Firefox:",
    timeit.timeit(
        f"selenium_firefox({repeat})",
        number=1,
        setup="from __main__ import selenium_firefox",
    ),
)