Run results for: children vs new querySelctorAll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

querySelectorAll

147K/s

...children

98K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ querySelectorAll	147,236 Ops/sec
...children	98,395 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="container">
  <ul>
    <li class="item">Item 1</li>
    <li class="item">Item 2</li>
    <li>Item 3</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Tests:

...children
const container = document.querySelector('.container > ul'); const itemList = [...container.children].filter(el => el.matches('li.item')); console.log(container, itemList);
querySelectorAll
const container = document.querySelector('.container > ul'); const itemList = document.querySelector('.container > ul > li.item'); console.log(container, itemList);