Run results for: querySelector vs tag

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

826K/s

822K/s

807K/s

804K/s

803K/s

729K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ 6	825,719 Ops/sec
3	822,472 Ops/sec
4	807,252 Ops/sec
1	803,515 Ops/sec
5	802,723 Ops/sec
2	728,974 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
    <main>
        <nav>
            <b>
                <small>
                    <p id="A" class="idx">12345</p>
                </small>
            </b>
        </nav>
    </main>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var X = 0;

Tests:

1
document.querySelector("div>main>nav>b>small>p").textContent = ++X;
2
document.querySelector(".idx").textContent = ++X;
3
A.textContent = ++X;
4
document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0].textContent = ++X;
5
document.getElementsByClassName("idx")[0].textContent = ++X;
6
document.getElementById("A").textContent = ++X;