Run results for: className.indexOf vs. classList.contains

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
className	261527.2 Ops/sec
classList	70644.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { if (element.className.indexOf("test") !== -1) {} }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.contains("test"); }