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Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 5 runs
getElementsByTagName for existing element
24.3M/s
getElementsByTagName for none existing element
23.9M/s
querySelector for none existing element
12.0M/s
querySelector for existing element
11.7M/s

Fastest: getElementsByTagName for existing element (2.1x faster)

View exact numbers
  • ✓ getElementsByTagName for existing element: 24,316,576 ops/sec
  • • getElementsByTagName for none existing element: 23,931,822 ops/sec
  • • querySelector for none existing element: 11,976,880 ops/sec
  • • querySelector for existing element: 11,650,139 ops/sec

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

Browser OS User Agent When Created
Chrome 148 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/148.0.0.0 2 months ago
Firefox 139 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0 6 months ago
Chrome 143 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 7 months ago
Chrome 142 Linux Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 8 months ago
Chrome 140 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 11 months ago
Firefox 130 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0 one year ago
Chrome 129 Windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 one year ago