Run results for: scrollTop vs scrollTo vs scrollBy vs scroll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTop =

51K/s

window.scrollBy

51K/s

window.scroll

50K/s

TEST_Body_DOM.scrollBy

49K/s

TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTo

49K/s

TEST_Body_DOM.scroll

49K/s

window.scrollTo

48K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<body style="height: 999999px;">

Script Preparation code:

TEST_Body_DOM = document.body;

Tests:

window.scrollTo
window.scrollTo(0, 999999); window.scrollTo(0, 499999); window.scrollTo(0, 0);
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTop =
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTop = 999999; TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTop = 499999; TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTop = 0;
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTo
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTo(0, 999999); TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTo(0, 499999); TEST_Body_DOM.scrollTo(0, 0);
TEST_Body_DOM.scroll
TEST_Body_DOM.scroll(0, 999999); TEST_Body_DOM.scroll(0, 499999); TEST_Body_DOM.scroll(0, 0);
window.scroll
window.scroll(0, 999999); window.scroll(0, 499999); window.scroll(0, 0);
window.scrollBy
window.scrollBy(0, 999999); window.scrollBy(0, -499999); window.scrollBy(0, -500000);
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollBy
TEST_Body_DOM.scrollBy(0, 999999); TEST_Body_DOM.scrollBy(0, -499999); TEST_Body_DOM.scrollBy(0, -500000);