Run results for: document.head vs document.getElementsByTagName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 109

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

4.7M/s

3.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ 2	4,661,606 Ops/sec
3	3,383,526 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests: