files/en-us/web/api/performancepainttiming/tojson/index.md
{{APIRef("Performance API")}}
The toJSON() method of the {{domxref("PerformancePaintTiming")}} interface is a {{Glossary("Serialization","serializer")}}; it returns a JSON representation of the {{domxref("PerformancePaintTiming")}} object.
toJSON()
None.
A {{jsxref("JSON")}} object that is the serialization of the {{domxref("PerformancePaintTiming")}} object.
In this example, calling entry.toJSON() returns a JSON representation of the PerformancePaintTiming object.
const observer = new PerformanceObserver((list) => {
list.getEntries().forEach((entry) => {
console.log(entry.toJSON());
});
});
observer.observe({ type: "paint", buffered: true });
This would log a JSON object like so:
{
"name": "first-contentful-paint",
"entryType": "paint",
"startTime": 234.5,
"duration": 0
}
To get a JSON string, you can use JSON.stringify(entry) directly; it will call toJSON() automatically.
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