Run results for: clientHeight vs offsetHeight vs getBoundingClientRect

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getBoundingClientRect

2.0M/s

offsetWidth / offsetHeight

1.7M/s

clientWidth / clientHeight

1.5M/s

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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
const { clientWidth, clientHeight } = el; const perim = (clientWidth + clientHeight) * 2;
offsetWidth / offsetHeight
const { offsetWidth, offsetHeight } = el; const perim = (offsetWidth + offsetHeight) * 2;
getBoundingClientRect
const { width, height } = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const perim = (width + height) * 2;