Is Selenium or Puppeteer faster?
When it comes to browser automation, there are two major tools available: Selenium and Puppeteer. The former is a mature library that has been around for years, while the latter was released by Google in 2016 and is highly rated on Github. Since I’ve recently been working with both of them, I thought I’d perform a side-by-side comparison of how they handle some basic tasks.
The general process for each tool is as follows:
After some investigation, I found that both tools were able to run through the different steps in the process almost identically. They were likely using the same methods to navigate the page. Despite this, the performance results were drastically different: Selenium was running over 6 times faster than Puppeteer!