diff --git a/packages/tracing/src/browser/metrics.ts b/packages/tracing/src/browser/metrics.ts
index d7bfd434ba5c..b8b3e51f3467 100644
--- a/packages/tracing/src/browser/metrics.ts
+++ b/packages/tracing/src/browser/metrics.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export class MetricsInstrumentation {
   private _clsEntry: LayoutShift | undefined;
 
   public constructor() {
-    if (!isNodeEnv() && global?.performance) {
+    if (!isNodeEnv() && global?.performance && global?.document) {
       if (global.performance.mark) {
         global.performance.mark('sentry-tracing-init');
       }
diff --git a/packages/tracing/test/browser/metrics.test.ts b/packages/tracing/test/browser/metrics.test.ts
index 114a9a480798..429d29131810 100644
--- a/packages/tracing/test/browser/metrics.test.ts
+++ b/packages/tracing/test/browser/metrics.test.ts
@@ -183,7 +183,25 @@ describe('MetricsInstrumentation', () => {
     trackers.forEach(tracker => expect(tracker).not.toBeCalled());
   });
 
-  it('initializes trackers when not on node and `global.performance` is available.', () => {
+  it('does not initialize trackers when not on node but `global.document` is not available (in worker)', () => {
+    // window not necessary for this test, but it is here to exercise that it is absence of document that is checked
+    addDOMPropertiesToGlobal(['performance', 'addEventListener', 'window']);
+    const processBackup = global.process;
+    global.process = undefined;
+    const documentBackup = global.document;
+    global.document = undefined;
+
+    const trackers = ['_trackCLS', '_trackLCP', '_trackFID'].map(tracker =>
+      jest.spyOn(MetricsInstrumentation.prototype as any, tracker),
+    );
+    new MetricsInstrumentation();
+    global.process = processBackup;
+    global.document = documentBackup;
+
+    trackers.forEach(tracker => expect(tracker).not.toBeCalled());
+  });
+
+  it('initializes trackers when not on node and `global.performance` and `global.document` are available.', () => {
     addDOMPropertiesToGlobal(['performance', 'document', 'addEventListener', 'window']);
     const backup = global.process;
     global.process = undefined;