Run results for: getElementById vs getElementsByName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getElementById

18.6M/s

getElementsByName

12.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	18,569,982 Ops/sec
getElementsByName	12,078,936 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests: