Benchmark¶
etrafilatura against trafilatura 2.3.1 —
pytest-benchmark medians over six documents of the fixture corpus (tests/resources/html/): four synthetic
pages (minimal, article, comments, tables), PEP 8 and a Wikipedia article (121 KB and 236 KB of real HTML).
Generated by make benchmark on 2026-10-22 · Linux · cpython · commit 942fee3d.
Matrix¶
Median milliseconds per call, etrafilatura / trafilatura (speedup):
| method | minimal | article | comments | tables | real_pep8 | real_wikipedia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
extract_txt |
0.34 / 0.44 ms (1.3×) | 0.81 / 0.64 ms (0.8×) | 0.63 / 0.69 ms (1.1×) | 0.66 / 0.75 ms (1.1×) | 29.48 / 44.21 ms (1.5×) | 28.48 / 33.68 ms (1.2×) |
extract_markdown |
0.37 / 0.48 ms (1.3×) | 0.88 / 0.72 ms (0.8×) | 0.84 / 0.76 ms (0.9×) | 0.74 / 0.83 ms (1.1×) | 35.74 / 47.85 ms (1.3×) | 29.81 / 35.53 ms (1.2×) |
extract_xml_meta |
0.43 / 0.75 ms (1.8×) | 1.11 / 1.56 ms (1.4×) | 0.81 / 0.91 ms (1.1×) | 0.87 / 1.00 ms (1.2×) | 38.36 / 80.18 ms (2.1×) | 37.09 / 59.08 ms (1.6×) |
bare_extraction |
0.35 / 1.02 ms (2.9×) | 1.01 / 0.65 ms (0.6×) | 0.61 / 0.68 ms (1.1×) | 0.66 / 0.74 ms (1.1×) | 28.53 / 43.31 ms (1.5×) | 28.64 / 34.12 ms (1.2×) |
extract_metadata |
0.08 / 0.46 ms (5.5×) | 0.15 / 0.77 ms (5.2×) | 0.10 / 0.14 ms (1.5×) | 0.08 / 0.16 ms (1.9×) | 7.56 / 33.27 ms (4.4×) | 8.93 / 23.92 ms (2.7×) |
html2txt |
0.02 / 0.02 ms (1.2×) | 0.11 / 0.11 ms (1.0×) | 0.11 / 0.11 ms (1.0×) | 0.09 / 0.09 ms (1.0×) | 8.69 / 9.94 ms (1.1×) | 8.65 / 8.74 ms (1.0×) |
baseline |
0.05 / 0.05 ms (0.9×) | 0.15 / 0.15 ms (1.0×) | 0.13 / 0.14 ms (1.0×) | 0.12 / 0.13 ms (1.0×) | 11.94 / 11.59 ms (1.0×) | 9.06 / 8.82 ms (1.0×) |
Reproduce¶
Numbers move with the machine, the Python version and the engine releases; the committed chart is a snapshot,
make benchmark regenerates it. Both libraries run in the same process, interleaved by pytest-benchmark,
on the same fixtures.