diff --git a/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/simple_bench.rb b/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/simple_bench.rb
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+require_relative '../../benchmark_helper'
+
+document = Oga.parse_xml('<root></root>')
+query    = 'root'
+
+Benchmark.ips do |bench|
+  bench.report(query.inspect) do
+    document.xpath(query)
+  end
+end