Run results for: jQuery versions through 4.00b2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test jQuery 2.2.4

63K/s

Test jQuery 3.3.1

63K/s

Test jQuery 3.4.1

59K/s

Test jQuery 4.0.0 beta 2

57K/s

Test jQuery 3.6.0

57K/s

Test jQuery 3.7.1

56K/s

Test jQuery 1.7.1

46K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Test jQuery 2.2.4	63,200 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.3.1	62,957 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.4.1	58,892 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 4.0.0 beta 2	57,485 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.6.0	56,584 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.7.1	56,045 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 1.7.1	45,639 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq171 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1113 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1124 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq224 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq331 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq341 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq360 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq371 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/4.0.0-beta.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq400b2 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>

<div>
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="menu-item">1</li>
    <li class="menu-item">2</li>
    <li class="menu-item">3</li>
    <li class="menu-item">4</li>  
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function tests($) {
    $(".menu-item").eq(2).closest("ul").css({
        "background-color": "red"
    }).parent().css({
        "border": "1px solid blue"
    }).append($("<p></p>").text("Text.").css({
        "background-color": "green"
    })).end().end().remove();
    console.log('tests' + $);
}

Tests:

Test jQuery 1.7.1
tests($jq171);
Test jQuery 2.2.4
tests($jq224);
Test jQuery 3.3.1
tests($jq331);
Test jQuery 3.4.1
tests($jq341);
Test jQuery 3.6.0
tests($jq360);
Test jQuery 3.7.1
tests($jq371);
Test jQuery 4.0.0 beta 2
tests($jq400b2);