Peter Lin, who works on the JMeter project has performed some benchmarks that indicate htmlparser is 40% to 600% faster than JTidy:

                 10     20     30    40     50    100     500    Yahoo   Cnet
    Htmlparser  80.0  126.4  160.4  200.4  236.4  400.6  1630.2  474.4  1251.8
    Tidy       498.6  531.0  626.8  658.8  687.0  849.4  2319.4  965.2  2049.0
    Delta        6.23   4.2    3.91   3.29   2.91   2.12    1.42   2.03    1.64

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    Last edited on Wednesday, October  1, 2003  6:54:10 am.