Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 120

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

getElementById

5.6M/s

querySelector

3.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	5,629,646 Ops/sec
querySelector	3,051,505 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement'); var className = el.className;