Run results for: matches vs. hasClass vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Chrome OS 14541.0.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

classList

39K/s

matches

32K/s

hasClass

4K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div class="foo"></div>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

matches
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.matches(".foo"); }
hasClass
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { $(element).hasClass(".foo"); }
classList
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.contains("foo"); }