parent vs closest 3 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: parentElement vs closest tag vs closest class vs closest tag class vs parentNode

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest
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Historical Performance Data aggregated from 9 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 9 runs
closest class
10.0M/s
closest tag class
9.1M/s
parentNode
8.3M/s
closest tag
6.5M/s
parentElement
6.3M/s

Fastest: closest class (1.6x faster)

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  • ✓ closest class: 10,008,282 ops/sec
  • • closest tag class: 9,078,688 ops/sec
  • • parentNode: 8,278,444 ops/sec
  • • closest tag: 6,492,882 ops/sec
  • • parentElement: 6,345,440 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

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Previous results
  • Test case name Result
    parentElement
    closest tag
    closest class
    closest tag class
    parentNode

    Fastest: N/A

    Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:
Run details: (Test run date: 9 months ago)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 139 on Mac OS X 10.15.7
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closest tag
26.7M/s
closest class
26.3M/s
parentNode
25.0M/s
parentElement
24.1M/s
closest tag class
21.6M/s
View exact numbers
Test name Executions per second
✓ closest tag 26,718,136 Ops/sec
closest class 26,348,340 Ops/sec
parentNode 24,981,890 Ops/sec
parentElement 24,106,968 Ops/sec
closest tag class 21,571,360 Ops/sec

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