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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

classList

26K/s

matches

20K/s

closest

18K/s

matches with more complex selector

10K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ classList	25,762 Ops/sec
matches	19,971 Ops/sec
closest	17,882 Ops/sec
matches with more complex selector	9,695 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"); }