Historical Performance Data aggregated from 6 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 6 runs
getElementsByClassName
11.2M/s
querySelector.body
9.6M/s
getElementsByClassName BODY
9.5M/s
querySelector
9.3M/s

Fastest: getElementsByClassName (1.2x faster)

View exact numbers
  • getElementsByClassName: 11,188,714 ops/sec
  • querySelector.body: 9,628,817 ops/sec
  • getElementsByClassName BODY: 9,457,921 ops/sec
  • querySelector: 9,303,471 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Browser OS Engine User Agent When Created
Chrome 135 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/135.0.0.0 one year ago
Chrome 133 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome 131 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago
Chrome 126 Windows Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago
Chrome 123 Mac OS X 10.15.7 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago
Chrome 120 Chrome OS 14541.0.0 Benchmark.js Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 2 years ago