Run results for: parentElement vs parentNode (multiple)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

parentNode

20.8M/s

parentElement

17.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ parentNode	20,844,090 Ops/sec
parentElement	17,294,710 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <div id="div">.</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.getElementById('div');

Tests: