Run results for: document.head vs document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] fork123

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

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

5.7M/s

5.2M/s

2.5M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<html>
<head id="myHead">
<title>My title</title>
</head>
<body><p id="demo"></p>
</body>
</html>

Tests: