Run results for: getBoundingClientRect vs offset performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

offset

3.6M/s

getBoundingClientRect

2.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ offset	3,556,895 Ops/sec
getBoundingClientRect	2,214,933 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test" style="position: absolute; left: 10%; top: 20%;">Test</div>

Tests:

getBoundingClientRect
const testDiv = document.getElementById('test'); const testRect = testDiv.getBoundingClientRect(); const x = testRect.left + testRect.width / 2;
offset
const testDiv = document.getElementById('test'); const y = testDiv.offsetLeft + testDiv.offsetWidth / 2;