Puppeteer vs Selenium vs Playwright, a speed comparison
Determining which automation tool is generally faster is far from simple. Therefore we decided to run our own benchmarks to see how newcomers Puppeteer and Playwright measured against the veteran WebDriverIO (using Selenium and the DevTools automation protocols). Among the results of our benchmark were also some unexpected findings, like Puppeteer being significantly faster on shorter scripts and WebDriverIO showing larger than expected variability in the longer scenarios.
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