Run results for: tagName vs instanceof

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

localName

6.3M/s

tagName

6.2M/s

nodeName

6.2M/s

instanceof

4.9M/s

__proto__

4.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ localName	6,294,150 Ops/sec
tagName	6,209,799 Ops/sec
nodeName	6,163,962 Ops/sec
instanceof	4,888,502 Ops/sec
__proto__	4,735,852 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var xs = [];
var n = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
  xs[i] = (Math.random() > .5) ? document.createElement(`div`) : document.createElement(`span`);
};

Tests:

instanceof
n += ((xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0]) instanceof HTMLDivElement)|0;
tagName
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].tagName === `DIV`)|0;
nodeName
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].nodeName === `DIV`)|0;
localName
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].localName === `div`)|0;
__proto__
n += ((xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0]).__proto__ === HTMLDivElement.prototype)|0;