Run results for: matches vs. closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

matches

33K/s

closest

27K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ matches	32,917 Ops/sec
closest	27,415 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

matches
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.matches(".foo .bar"); }
closest
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.closest(".foo"); }