Run results for: TreeWalker vs querySelectorAll (* all elements)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/124.0.6367.111 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 124

Operating system: iOS 17.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

querySelectorAll

8.0M/s

TreeWalker

1.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ querySelectorAll	8,028,240 Ops/sec
TreeWalker	1,941,758 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

Tests:

TreeWalker
const treeWalker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT ); const list = []; let element; while (element = treeWalker.nextNode()) { list.push(element); }
querySelectorAll
const list = document.body.querySelectorAll('*');