Run results for: window.getComputedStyle 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/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getComputedStyle

1K/s

getBoundingClientRect

834/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getComputedStyle	1,162 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	834 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

getComputedStyle
var i = 5000; while (i--) { checkDisplay('foo'); } function checkDisplay(id) { return window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(id), null).getPropertyValue("display") === "none"; }
getBoundingClientRect
var i = 5000; while (i--) { checkDisplay('foo'); } function checkDisplay(id) { return document.getElementById(id).getBoundingClientRect().width === 0; }