Benchmark: clientWidth / clientHeight vs. getBoundingClientRect() vs. getComputedStyle

clientWidth / clientHeight vs. getBoundingClientRect() vs. getComputedStyle (version: 0)

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el">
  <h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</h2>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var el = document.getElementById("el");

Tests:

clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)
const { clientWidth: width, clientHeight: height } = el; const perim = (width + height) * 2;
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)
const { clientWidth, clientHeight } = el; const perim = (clientWidth + clientHeight) * 2;
clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)
const width = el.clientWidth; const height = el.clientHeight; const perim = (width + height) * 2;
getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)
const { width, height } = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const perim = (width + height) * 2;
getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)
const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const width = rect.width; const height = rect.height; const perim = (width + height) * 2;
getComputedStyle
const { height, width } = getComputedStyle(el); const perim = (width + height) * 2;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)
clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)
getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)
getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)
getComputedStyle

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 11 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 113 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)	579662.8 Ops/sec
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)	596648.3 Ops/sec
clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)	604349.2 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)	780471.4 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)	790676.5 Ops/sec
getComputedStyle	272658.8 Ops/sec