node-http-client-bench 
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
Usage
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose run benchmark sh
$ node index.js
Results
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GET 16K.txt
Module OPS RME Samples
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
http.request 1609 ±3.95% 106
axios 1255 ±2.87% 79
got 977 ±2.80% 66
superagent 1523 ±2.90% 100
isomorphicFetch 1410 ±3.02% 93
nodeFetch 1332 ±2.79% 87
ky-universal 1273 ±3.86% 87
GET 32K.txt
Module OPS RME Samples
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
http.request 1472 ±3.29% 93
axios 1025 ±3.62% 74
got 1086 ±2.95% 71
superagent 1507 ±2.51% 92
isomorphicFetch 1339 ±2.75% 88
nodeFetch 1334 ±2.63% 84
ky-universal 1197 ±3.82% 83
GET 64K.txt
Module OPS RME Samples
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
http.request 1211 ±3.51% 77
axios 914 ±3.31% 65
got 872 ±2.86% 59
superagent 1232 ±2.18% 80
isomorphicFetch 995 ±2.72% 75
nodeFetch 1079 ±1.91% 71
ky-universal 877 ±3.14% 67
GET 256K.txt
Module OPS RME Samples
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
http.request 703 ±3.04% 42
axios 474 ±3.67% 36
got 427 ±3.22% 28
superagent 702 ±1.96% 44
isomorphicFetch 539 ±2.19% 35
nodeFetch 551 ±2.01% 37
ky-universal 459 ±2.75% 30
GET 1024K.txt
Module OPS RME Samples
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
http.request 246 ±3.17% 19
axios 184 ±2.01% 12
got 206 ±2.00% 13
superagent 255 ±1.92% 16
isomorphicFetch 197 ±1.46% 12
nodeFetch 186 ±2.12% 13
ky-universal 205 ±2.15% 13
License
MIT © Forrest Desjardins