diff --git a/test/browser/index.js b/test/browser/index.js
index e3f05d0620d..1d5aa2a1305 100644
--- a/test/browser/index.js
+++ b/test/browser/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 const { basename, resolve } = require('path');
+const { performance } = require('perf_hooks');
+
+// since we don't run the browser tests in an actual browser, we need to make `perforomance`
+// globally accessible same as in the browser (this can be removed once available globally in all supported platforms)
+global.performance = performance;
+
 const fixturify = require('fixturify');
 const { rollup } = require('../../dist/rollup.browser.js');
 const { assertFilesAreEqual, runTestSuiteWithSamples, compareError } = require('../utils.js');