Baseline Widely available
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The performance.now() method returns a high resolution timestamp in milliseconds. It represents the time elapsed since Performance.timeOrigin (the time when navigation has started in window contexts, or the time when the worker is run in Worker and ServiceWorker contexts).
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Return valueReturns a DOMHighResTimeStamp measured in milliseconds.
Performance.now vs. Date.now
Unlike Date.now, the timestamps returned by performance.now() are not limited to one-millisecond resolution. Instead, they represent times as floating-point numbers with up to microsecond precision.
Also, Date.now() may have been impacted by system and user clock adjustments, clock skew, etc. as it is relative to the Unix epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z) and dependent on the system clock. The performance.now() method on the other hand is relative to the timeOrigin property which is a monotonic clock: its current time never decreases and isn't subject to adjustments.
performance.now specification changes
The semantics of the performance.now() method changed between High Resolution Time Level 1 and Level 2.
performance.timing.navigationStart Performance.timeOrigin Triggering conditions Document fetch or unload prompt (if any). Creation of the browsing context (if no prior document), unload prompt (if any), or start of the navigation (as defined in HTML, a few steps before fetch).
The performance.now() method used to be relative to performance.timing.navigationStart property from the Navigation Timing specification. This changed and performance.now() is now relative to Performance.timeOrigin which avoids clock change risks when comparing timestamps across webpages.
// Level 1 (clock change risks)
currentTime = performance.timing.navigationStart + performance.now();
// Level 2 (no clock change risks)
currentTime = performance.timeOrigin + performance.now();
The specification (Level 2) requires that performance.now() should tick during sleep. It appears that only Firefox on Windows, and Chromiums on Windows keep ticking during sleep. Relevant browser bugs for other operating systems:
More details can also be found in the specification issue hr-time#115.
Security requirementsTo offer protection against timing attacks and fingerprinting, performance.now() is coarsened based on whether or not the document is cross-origin isolated.
You can use the Window.crossOriginIsolated and WorkerGlobalScope.crossOriginIsolated properties to check if the document is cross-origin isolated:
if (crossOriginIsolated) {
// Use measureUserAgentSpecificMemory
}
performance.now()
To determine how much time has elapsed since a particular point in your code, you can do something like this:
const t0 = performance.now();
doSomething();
const t1 = performance.now();
console.log(`Call to doSomething took ${t1 - t0} milliseconds.`);
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