Run results for: clientWidth / clientHeight vs. getBoundingClientRect()

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

clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)

7.7M/s

clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)

7.6M/s

clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)

6.2M/s

getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)

4.0M/s

getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)

4.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)	7,658,286 Ops/sec
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)	7,595,190 Ops/sec
clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)	6,231,816 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)	4,038,480 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)	3,997,598 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el">
  <h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</h2>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var el = document.getElementById("el");

Tests:

clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured and renamed)
const { clientWidth: width, clientHeight: height } = el; const perim = (width + height) * 2;
clientWidth / clientHeight (destructured)
const { clientWidth, clientHeight } = el; const perim = (clientWidth + clientHeight) * 2;
clientWidth / clientHeight (simple property access)
const width = el.clientWidth; const height = el.clientHeight; const perim = (width + height) * 2;
getBoundingClientRect() (destructured)
const { width, height } = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const perim = (width + height) * 2;
getBoundingClientRect() (simple property access)
const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const width = rect.width; const height = rect.height; const perim = (width + height) * 2;