Run results for: querySelector on HTML tag vs. closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Browser: Firefox 102

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getting the html tag with querySelector	2944965.5 Ops/sec
getting the html tag with closest	4886541.0 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