Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
The legacy PerformanceNavigation interface represents information about how the navigation to the current document was done.
Warning: This interface is deprecated in the Navigation Timing Level 2 specification. Please use the PerformanceNavigationTiming interface instead.
An object of this type can be obtained by calling the Performance.navigation read-only attribute.
The PerformanceNavigation interface doesn't inherit any properties.
An unsigned short which indicates how the navigation to this page was done. Possible values are:
The page was accessed by following a link, a bookmark, a form submission, or a script, or by typing the URL in the address bar.
TYPE_RELOAD (1)The page was accessed by clicking the Reload button or via the Location.reload() method.
TYPE_BACK_FORWARD (2)The page was accessed by navigating into the history.
TYPE_RESERVED (255)Any other way.
An unsigned short representing the number of REDIRECTs done before reaching the page.
The Performance interface doesn't inherit any methods.
A serializer returning a JSON object representing the PerformanceNavigation object.
| Specification |
|---|
| Navigation Timing Level 2> # dom-performancenavigation> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
PerformanceNavigation |
10 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 9 |
redirectCount |
10 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 9 |
toJSON |
56 | 12 | 25Before Firefox 70, this property could return incorrect values. See bug 1459711. |
43 | 14.1 | 56 | 25Before Firefox for Android 79, this property could return incorrect values. See bug 1459711. |
43 | 14.5 | 6.0 | 56 | 14.5 |
type |
10 | 12 | 7Before Firefox 70, this property could return incorrect values. See bug 1459711. |
15 | 8 | 18 | 7Before Firefox for Android 79, this property could return incorrect values. See bug 1459711. |
14 | 9 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 9 |
Performance that allows access to an object of this type.PerformanceNavigationTiming (part of Navigation Timing Level 2) that has superseded this API.
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