Run results for: getBBox() vs getBoundingClientRect() vs getComputedTextLength()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getComputedTextLength

46K/s

getBBox

44K/s

getBoundingClientRect

32K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getComputedTextLength	45,965 Ops/sec
getBBox	44,138 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	32,257 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<svg width="150" height="150">
	<text id="test1" y="50">test1</text>
	<text id="test2" y="100">
		<tspan id="test3">test3</tspan>	
	</text>
	<tspan id="test4">test4</tspan>
</svg>

Script Preparation code:

var test1 = document.getElementById('test1');
var test2 = document.getElementById('test2');
var test3 = document.getElementById('test3');
var test4 = document.getElementById('test4');

Tests:

getBBox
test1.getBBox().width; test2.getBBox().width; test3.getBBox().width; test4.getBBox().width;
getBoundingClientRect
test1.getBoundingClientRect().width; test2.getBoundingClientRect().width; test3.getBoundingClientRect().width; test4.getBoundingClientRect().width;
getComputedTextLength
test1.getComputedTextLength(); test2.getComputedTextLength(); test3.getComputedTextLength(); test4.getComputedTextLength();