Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName iteration

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

querySelectorAll

443K/s

getElementsByTagName

344K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ querySelectorAll	443,384 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	344,177 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) {});