Run results for: getElementById vs getElementsByClassName aasa

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/120.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

querySelector

482K/s

getElementById

472K/s

getElementsByClassName

446K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="a" class="a">d</div>

Tests:

getElementById
let el = document.getElementById('a'); el.innerHTML = 'abc';
getElementsByClassName
let el = document.getElementsByClassName('a')[0]; el.innerHTML = 'abc';
querySelector
let el = document.querySelector('.a'); el.innerHTML = 'abc';