Run results for: Measure Single Text

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/87.0.4280.77 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 87

Operating system: iOS 14.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
offsetWidth	5076281.5 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	2406555.5 Ops/sec
canvas	545816.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>Hello World</div>

Script Preparation code:

const canvas = document.createElement('canvas')
window.context = canvas.getContext('2d')

Tests:

offsetWidth
document.querySelector('div').offsetWidth
getBoundingClientRect
document.querySelector('div').getBoundingClientRect().width
canvas
window.context.measureText('Hello world')

Run results for: Measure Single Text

Using various methods to measure a single string of text.

offsetWidth

getBoundingClientRect

canvas