Run results for: resize event listener vs resizeObserver

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
resizeObserver (body)	23455.5 Ops/sec
resizeObserver (container)	23563.2 Ops/sec
window resize event listener	7593.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="container">
</div>

Tests:

resizeObserver (body)
this._resizeWatcher = new ResizeObserver(entry => { this._onResize(); }); this._resizeWatcher.observe(document.body); function _onResize() { document.querySelector('.container').style.setProperty('--viewport-width', window.innerWidth); } for (let i = 360; i <= 1920; i++) { window.resizeTo(i, 1000) }
resizeObserver (container)
this._resizeWatcher = new ResizeObserver(entry => { this._onResize(); }); this._resizeWatcher.observe(document.querySelector('.container')); function _onResize() { document.querySelector('.container').style.setProperty('--viewport-width', window.innerWidth); } for (let i = 360; i <= 1920; i++) { window.resizeTo(i, 1000) }
window resize event listener
document.querySelector('.container').style.setProperty('--viewport-width', window.innerWidth); window.addEventListener('resize', _onResize); function _onResize() { document.querySelector('.container').style.setProperty('--viewport-width', window.innerWidth); } for (let i = 360; i <= 1920; i++) { window.resizeTo(i, 1000) }