Run results for: matches vs. complex matches vs closest vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

classList

942K/s

matches

11K/s

closest

11K/s

matches with more complex selector

7K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ classList	942,047 Ops/sec
matches	11,263 Ops/sec
closest	10,947 Ops/sec
matches with more complex selector	6,925 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="foo"></div>

Tests:

matches
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.matches(".foo"); }
closest
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.closest(".foo"); }
classList
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.contains("foo"); }
matches with more complex selector
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.matches("div.bar, dev.baz, div.foo"); }