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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

nested element

17.1M/s

document

7.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ nested element	17,072,012 Ops/sec
document	7,732,218 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')