Run results for: Measure Single Text

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
offsetWidth	4912671.5 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	2984910.5 Ops/sec
canvas	585243.6 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