diff --git a/crates/obscura-js/js/bootstrap.js b/crates/obscura-js/js/bootstrap.js
index 3ef371a..2683dea 100644
--- a/crates/obscura-js/js/bootstrap.js
+++ b/crates/obscura-js/js/bootstrap.js
@@ -5360,11 +5360,16 @@ globalThis.XMLSerializer = class XMLSerializer {
 };
 globalThis.performance = globalThis.performance || {
   now: (function() {
-    var _lastMs = -1, _sub = 0;
+    // Monotonically non-decreasing: return the wall-clock offset, but never a
+    // value below the last one. The previous version added an uncapped per-call
+    // sub-millisecond bump that could exceed 1.0, so when the millisecond then
+    // ticked over and the bump reset to 0 the result went backwards.
+    var _last = 0;
     return function() {
       var ms = Date.now() - (globalThis.performance.timeOrigin || 0);
-      if (ms !== _lastMs) { _lastMs = ms; _sub = 0; } else { _sub += 0.1; }
-      return ms + _sub;
+      if (ms > _last) _last = ms;
+      else _last += 0.001; // same/earlier ms: advance by a tiny epsilon
+      return _last;
     };
   })(),
   mark(){}, measure(){},
diff --git a/crates/obscura-js/src/runtime.rs b/crates/obscura-js/src/runtime.rs
index fdfeb4d..5dca703 100644
--- a/crates/obscura-js/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/crates/obscura-js/src/runtime.rs
@@ -1317,6 +1317,19 @@ mod tests {
         rt
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn performance_now_is_monotonic_under_bursty_calls() {
+        let mut rt = setup_runtime("<html><body></body></html>");
+        // Hammer performance.now() so many calls land in the same millisecond and
+        // the wall clock rolls over repeatedly; the value must never go backwards.
+        let violations = rt
+            .evaluate(
+                "(function(){var prev=-Infinity, bad=0; for(var i=0;i<500000;i++){var t=performance.now(); if(t<prev) bad++; prev=t;} return bad;})()",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(violations.as_f64(), Some(0.0), "performance.now() went backwards");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_document_title() {
         let mut rt = setup_runtime("<html><head><title>Test</title></head><body></body></html>");