Run results for: querySelector on HTML tag vs. closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36 OPR/78.0.4093.147

Browser: Opera 78

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getting the html tag with querySelector	3503292.8 Ops/sec
getting the html tag with closest	2217408.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<html>
  <body>
    <div>
      <div>
        <div>
          <div>
            <div id="test"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Script Preparation code:

window.theDiv = document.querySelector('#test');

Tests:

getting the html tag with querySelector
const theHtml = document.querySelector('html');
getting the html tag with closest
const theHtml = theDiv.closest('html')

Run results for: querySelector on HTML tag vs. closest

Figuring out what's faster, to querySelect the HTML tag or use the javascript closest

getting the html tag with querySelector

getting the html tag with closest