Console.time()

Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

Starts a timer you can use to track how long an operation takes. You give each timer a unique name, and may have up to 10,000 timers running on a given page. When you call console.timeEnd() with the same name, the browser will output the time, in milliseconds, that elapsed since the timer was started.

See Timers in the console documentation for details and examples.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

Syntax

console.time(label);

Parameters

label
The name to give the new timer. This will identify the timer; use the same name when calling console.timeEnd() to stop the timer and get the time output to the console.

Specifications

Specification Status Comment
Console API
The definition of 'console.time()' in that specification.
Editor's Draft Initial definition

Browser compatibility

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support 2 10.0 (10.0) 11 (Yes) 4.0
Available in workers ? 38.0 (38.0) ? ? ?
Feature Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support ? 10.0 (10.0) ? ? ?
Available in workers ? 38.0 (38.0) ? ? ?

See also

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