Run results for: querySelector(), document vs nested element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

nested element

13.7M/s

document

6.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ nested element	13,679,547 Ops/sec
document	6,539,344 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<header>
  <p>header</p>
</header>
<section>
    <div>
        <p class="text">Text</p>
    </div>
</section>
<footer>
  <p>footer</p>
</footer>

Script Preparation code:

var section = document.querySelector('section');

Tests:

document
var text1 = document.querySelector('.text')
nested element
var text2 = section.querySelector('.text')