Performance: clearMeasures() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2015.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The clearMeasures() method removes all or specific PerformanceMeasure objects from the browser's performance timeline.

Syntax

js
clearMeasures()
clearMeasures(name)

Parameters

name Optional

A string representing the name of the PerformanceMeasure object. If this argument is omitted, all entries with an entryType of "measure" will be removed.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

Removing measures

To clean up all performance measure, or just specific entries, use the clearMeasures() method like this:

js
// Create a bunch of measures
performance.measure("from navigation");
performance.mark("a");
performance.measure("from mark a", "a");
performance.measure("from navigation");
performance.measure("from mark a", "a");
performance.mark("b");
performance.measure("between a and b", "a", "b");

performance.getEntriesByType("measure").length; // 5

// Delete just the "from navigation" measure entries
performance.clearMeasures("from navigation");
performance.getEntriesByType("measure").length; // 3

// Delete all of the measure entries
performance.clearMeasures();
performance.getEntriesByType("measure").length; // 0

Specifications

Specification
User Timing
# dom-performance-clearmeasures

Browser compatibility

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See also