Run results for: JQuery version speed test (1.11 vs 2.2.4 vs 3.3.1)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0

Browser: Firefox 56

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
$jq1124	25582.9 Ops/sec
$jq224	40402.5 Ops/sec
$jq331	39804.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1124 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq224 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq331 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<div>
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="menu-item">1</li>
    <li class="menu-item">2</li>
    <li class="menu-item">3</li>
    <li class="menu-item">4</li>  
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function tests($) {
    $(".menu-item").eq(2).closest("ul").css({
      "background-color": "red"
    }).parent().css({
      "border": "1px solid blue"
    }).append($("<p></p>").text("Text.")).end().end().remove();
}

Tests:

$jq1124
tests($jq1124);
$jq224
tests($jq224);
$jq331
tests($jq331);