Run results for: window.getComputedStyle vs. className

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

className

21K/s

getComputedStyle

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ className	21,249 Ops/sec
getComputedStyle	1,990 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

getComputedStyle
var i = 3000; while (i--) { chekele('foo'); } function chekele(element) { return window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(element), null).getPropertyValue("display").indexOf('none') === -1; }
className
var i = 3000; while (i--) { chekele('foo'); } function chekele(element) { return document.getElementById(element).className.indexOf('hide') === -1; }