docs/benchmarks.md

Performance Benchmarks

Scrapling isn't just powerful—it's also blazing fast. The following benchmarks compare Scrapling's parser with the latest versions of other popular libraries.

Text Extraction Speed Test (5000 nested elements)

#	Library	Time (ms)	vs Scrapling
1	Scrapling	2.02	1.0x
2	Parsel/Scrapy	2.04	1.01
3	Raw Lxml	2.54	1.257
4	PyQuery	24.17	~12x
5	Selectolax	82.63	~41x
6	MechanicalSoup	1549.71	~767.1x
7	BS4 with Lxml	1584.31	~784.3x
8	BS4 with html5lib	3391.91	~1679.1x

Element Similarity & Text Search Performance

Scrapling's adaptive element finding capabilities significantly outperform alternatives:

Library	Time (ms)	vs Scrapling
Scrapling	2.39	1.0x
AutoScraper	12.45	5.209x

All benchmarks represent averages of 100+ runs. See benchmarks.py for methodology.