PerformanceEntry.entryType
The entryType
property returns a DOMString
representing the type of performance metric such as, for example, "mark
". This property is read only.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
Syntax
var type = entry.entryType;
Return value
The return value depends on the subtype of the PerformanceEntry
object and affects the value of the PerformanceEntry.name
property as shown by the table below.
Performance entry type names
Value | Subtype | Type of name property | Description of name property |
---|---|---|---|
element | PerformanceElementTiming | DOMString | Reports load time of elements. |
navigation | PerformanceNavigationTiming | URL | The document's address. |
resource | PerformanceResourceTiming | URL | The resolved URL of the requested resource. This value doesn't change even if the request is redirected. |
mark | PerformanceMark | DOMString | The name used when the mark was created by calling performance.mark() . |
measure | PerformanceMeasure | DOMString | name used when the measure was created by calling performance.measure() . |
paint | PerformancePaintTiming | DOMString | Either 'first-paint' or 'first-contentful-paint' . |
longtask | PerformanceLongTaskTiming | DOMString | reports instances of long tasks |
Example
The following example shows the use of the entryType
property.
function run_PerformanceEntry() { // check for feature support before continuing if (performance.mark === undefined) { console.log("performance.mark not supported"); return; } // Create a performance entry named "begin" via the mark() method performance.mark("begin"); // Check the entryType of all the "begin" entries var entriesNamedBegin = performance.getEntriesByName("begin"); for (var i=0; i < entriesNamedBegin.length; i++) { var typeOfEntry = entriesNamedBegin[i].entryType; console.log("Entry is type: " + typeOfEntry); } }
Specifications
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
entryType |
28 |
12 |
35 |
10 |
15 |
11 |
≤37 |
28 |
35 |
14 |
11 |
1.5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PerformanceEntry/entryType