Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName iteration

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getElementsByTagName

1.1M/s

querySelectorAll

966K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementsByTagName	1,074,776 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	965,993 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>

Tests:

querySelectorAll
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); allDivs.forEach(function (div) {});
getElementsByTagName
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); const arrayAllDivs = Array.from(allDivs); arrayAllDivs.forEach(function (div) {});