Run results for: Closest performance: Class selector vs data attribute selector vs no result

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/119.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Class selector

7.9M/s

Data attribute selector

6.6M/s

No result

3.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Class selector	7,895,340 Ops/sec
Data attribute selector	6,589,316 Ops/sec
No result	3,295,544 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
    <div>
        <div>
            <div>
                <div class="gtm" data-gtm='test'>
                    <div>
                        <div>
                            <div class="clicked"></div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>


<script>
    Benchmark.prototype.setup = () => {
        const element = document.querySelector('.clicked');
    };
</script>

Tests:

Class selector
const result = element.closest('.gtm')
Data attribute selector
const result = element.closest('[data-gtm]')
No result
const result = element.closest('[data-gtm-noop]')