Run results for: instanceof vs typeof - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
instanceof	4431381.5 Ops/sec
typeof	12829935.0 Ops/sec
typeof no function	6469436.0 Ops/sec
typeof and test attribute	6425784.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var obj = {a:2};

Tests:

instanceof
obj instanceof Object
typeof
typeof obj === 'object'
typeof no function
typeof obj === 'object' && typeof obj !== 'function'
typeof and test attribute
typeof obj === 'object' && obj.a

;