Benchmark: matches vs. closest vs. classList (with element tag check)

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

matches
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.matches("div.foo"); }
closest
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.closest("div.foo"); }
classList (with nodeName)
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.nodeName === "DIV" && element.classList.contains("foo"); }
classList (with tagName)
var element = document.querySelector(".foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.tagName === "DIV" && element.classList.contains("foo"); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 113 on Windows

matches vs. closest vs. classList (with element tag check) (version: 0)