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getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (simple comparison)
A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 122
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
The method getElementsByClassName()
3296087.5 Ops/sec
The method querySelectorAll()
556582.1 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div>
Tests:
The method getElementsByClassName()
document.getElementById("example container");
The method querySelectorAll()
document.querySelectorAll(".example.container");