Run results for: getBoundingClientRect vs offset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Access offset properties directly

1.3M/s

getBoundingClientRect

1.2M/s

getLocalDOMRect

382K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Access offset properties directly	1,325,758 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	1,151,256 Ops/sec
getLocalDOMRect	381,685 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el" style="transform: rotateZ(45deg)">
  <h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</h2>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function getLocalDOMRect(el) {
  let offsetTop = 0;
  let offsetLeft = 0;
  const width = el.offsetWidth;
  const height = el.offsetHeight;
  while (el instanceof HTMLElement) {
    offsetTop += el.offsetTop;
    offsetLeft += el.offsetLeft;
    el = el.offsetParent;
  }

  return new DOMRect(offsetLeft, offsetTop, width, height);
}

const el = document.getElementById("el");

Tests:

getBoundingClientRect
const { left, right, top, bottom } = el.getBoundingClientRect();
getLocalDOMRect
const { left, right, top, bottom } = getLocalDOMRect(el);
Access offset properties directly
const { offsetWidth, offsetHeight, offsetTop } = el;