Run results for: getBoundingClientRect vs getAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.7 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
getBoundingClientRect	3351688.8 Ops/sec
getAttribute	12829928.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test" data-height="20"></div>

Tests:

getBoundingClientRect
let element = document.getElementById('test'); let rect = element.getBoundingClientRect(); let height = rect.height;
getAttribute
let element = document.getElementById('test'); let heightAttr = element.getAttribute('data-height'); let height = (heightAttr && Number.parseInt(heightAttr, 10)) || 0;