Run results for: JQuery version speed test (2.2.4 vs 3.3.1 vs 3.4.1)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
$jq341	12175.6 Ops/sec
$jq224	13101.7 Ops/sec
$jq331	11537.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<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>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq341 = $.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:

$jq341
tests($jq341);
$jq224
tests($jq224);
$jq331
tests($jq331);