Benchmark: document.documentElement.clientWidth/Height vs window.innerWidth/Height

Tests:

window dimensions
window.innerWidth window.innerHeight
document.documentElement dimensions
document.documentElement.clientWidth document.documentElement.clientHeight

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
window dimensions
document.documentElement dimensions

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 137 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
window dimensions	2922334.8 Ops/sec
document.documentElement dimensions	1659542.1 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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Let's break down the provided benchmark definition and test cases.

**Benchmark Definition:**
The benchmark definition is a JSON object that contains three properties:

* `Name`: A human-readable name for the benchmark, which in this case is "document.documentElement.clientWidth/Height vs window.innerWidth/Height".
* `Description`: An optional description of the benchmark, which is null in this case.
* `Script Preparation Code` and `Html Preparation Code`: These are optional properties that can be used to prepare the script or HTML environment for the benchmark. In this case, both properties are null.

**Individual Test Cases:**
The test cases are an array of objects, each containing:

* `Benchmark Definition`: The actual JavaScript code that is being measured. There are two test cases:
	1. "window.innerWidth window.innerHeight"
	2. "document.documentElement.clientWidth document.documentElement.clientHeight"

These test cases measure the performance of accessing window and document element properties.

**Library Used:**
None

The provided benchmark definition does not rely on any specific libraries or frameworks.

**Special JS Features/Syntax:**
None

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax being tested in these benchmarks. They appear to be standard JavaScript operations.

**Options Compared:**
In this case, the options compared are:

* `window.innerWidth` vs `document.documentElement.clientWidth`
* `window.innerHeight` vs `document.documentElement.clientHeight`

These two pairs of properties are compared to measure their performance differences.

**Pros and Cons of Different Approaches:**

1. **Using `window.innerWidth` and `window.innerHeight`:**
	* Pros:
		+ More accurate for mobile devices and responsive design scenarios.
		+ Easier to implement, as these properties are directly accessible on the window object.
	* Cons:
		+ May be slower due to security restrictions (e.g., browser's content security policy) when accessing `window` properties from a script running in a sandboxed environment or with restricted access permissions.
2. **Using `document.documentElement.clientWidth` and `document.documentElement.clientHeight`:**
	* Pros:
		+ Faster, as these properties are directly accessible on the document element object and do not rely on the window object's security restrictions.
	* Cons:
		+ Less accurate for mobile devices and responsive design scenarios, as these properties only provide information about the document's internal width and height.

**Other Alternatives:**

1. **Using `innerWidth` and `innerHeight` properties of an element (e.g., a `<div>`):**
	* This approach can be useful if you're measuring performance in a specific layout scenario or need more precise control over the test environment.
2. **Measuring performance using a library like WebPageTest:**
	* WebPageTest is a popular tool for web performance benchmarking, offering more advanced features and analysis capabilities than MeasureThat.net.

Keep in mind that these alternatives may not be directly applicable to this specific benchmark definition or might require modifications to the test code.

Related benchmarks:

document.documentElement.clientWidth/Height vs window.innerWidth/Height (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: window dimensions vs document.documentElement dimensions

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

window dimensions

document.documentElement dimensions

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):