diff --git a/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/src/web/bench_child_layers.dart b/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/src/web/bench_child_layers.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..56672a075ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/src/web/bench_child_layers.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Flutter Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:ui';
+
+import 'recorder.dart';
+
+/// Repeatedly paints a grid of rectangles where each rectangle is drawn in its
+/// own [Picture].
+///
+/// Measures the performance of updating many layers. For example, the HTML
+/// rendering backend attempts to reuse the DOM nodes created for engine layers.
+///
+/// See also `bench_draw_rect.dart`, which draws nearly identical UI but puts all
+/// rectangles into the same picture.
+class BenchUpdateManyChildLayers extends SceneBuilderRecorder {
+  BenchUpdateManyChildLayers() : super(name: benchmarkName);
+
+  static const String benchmarkName = 'bench_update_many_child_layers';
+
+  /// Number of rows in the grid.
+  static const int kRows = 32;
+
+  /// Number of columns in the grid.
+  static const int kColumns = 32;
+
+  /// Counter used to offset the rendered rects to make them wobble.
+  ///
+  /// The wobbling is there so a human could visually verify that the benchmark
+  /// is correctly pumping frames.
+  double wobbleCounter = 0;
+
+  List<Picture> _pictures;
+  Size windowSize;
+  Size cellSize;
+  Size rectSize;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> setUpAll() async {
+    _pictures = <Picture>[];
+    windowSize = window.physicalSize;
+    cellSize = Size(
+      windowSize.width / kColumns,
+      windowSize.height / kRows,
+    );
+    rectSize = cellSize * 0.8;
+
+    final Paint paint = Paint()..color = const Color.fromARGB(255, 255, 0, 0);
+    for (int i = 0; i < kRows * kColumns; i++) {
+      final PictureRecorder pictureRecorder = PictureRecorder();
+      final Canvas canvas = Canvas(pictureRecorder);
+      canvas.drawRect(Offset.zero & rectSize, paint);
+      _pictures.add(pictureRecorder.endRecording());
+    }
+  }
+
+  OffsetEngineLayer _rootLayer;
+  final Map<int, OffsetEngineLayer> _layers = <int, OffsetEngineLayer>{};
+
+  @override
+  void onDrawFrame(SceneBuilder sceneBuilder) {
+    _rootLayer = sceneBuilder.pushOffset(0, 0, oldLayer: _rootLayer);
+    for (int row = 0; row < kRows; row++) {
+      for (int col = 0; col < kColumns; col++) {
+        final int layerId = 1000000 * row + col;
+        final OffsetEngineLayer oldLayer = _layers[layerId];
+        final double wobbleOffsetX = col * cellSize.width + (wobbleCounter - 5).abs();
+        final double offsetY = row * cellSize.height;
+        // Retain every other layer, so we exercise the update path 50% of the
+        // time and the retain path the other 50%.
+        final bool shouldRetain = oldLayer != null && (row + col) % 2 == 0;
+        if (shouldRetain) {
+          sceneBuilder.addRetained(oldLayer);
+        } else {
+          _layers[layerId] = sceneBuilder.pushOffset(
+            wobbleOffsetX,
+            offsetY,
+            oldLayer: oldLayer,
+          );
+          sceneBuilder.addPicture(Offset.zero, _pictures[row * kColumns + col]);
+          sceneBuilder.pop();
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    sceneBuilder.pop();
+    wobbleCounter += 1;
+    wobbleCounter = wobbleCounter % 10;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/web_benchmarks.dart b/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/web_benchmarks.dart
index 211a446ca70..c63507623d6 100644
--- a/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/web_benchmarks.dart
+++ b/dev/benchmarks/macrobenchmarks/lib/web_benchmarks.dart
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import 'package:macrobenchmarks/src/web/bench_text_out_of_picture_bounds.dart';
 
 import 'src/web/bench_build_material_checkbox.dart';
 import 'src/web/bench_card_infinite_scroll.dart';
+import 'src/web/bench_child_layers.dart';
 import 'src/web/bench_clipped_out_pictures.dart';
 import 'src/web/bench_draw_rect.dart';
 import 'src/web/bench_dynamic_clip_on_static_picture.dart';
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ final Map<String, RecorderFactory> benchmarks = <String, RecorderFactory>{
   BenchBuildMaterialCheckbox.benchmarkName: () => BenchBuildMaterialCheckbox(),
   BenchDynamicClipOnStaticPicture.benchmarkName: () => BenchDynamicClipOnStaticPicture(),
   BenchPictureRecording.benchmarkName: () => BenchPictureRecording(),
+  BenchUpdateManyChildLayers.benchmarkName: () => BenchUpdateManyChildLayers(),
   if (isCanvasKit)
     BenchBuildColorsGrid.canvasKitBenchmarkName: () => BenchBuildColorsGrid.canvasKit(),