Run results for: className vs data attr querySelectorAll vs getElementsByClassName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll data attr	1585226.4 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll data attr plus node name	781202.0 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll class name	1812159.2 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll class name plus node name	1176072.2 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll node name plus class name plus data attr	898583.6 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName	9575096.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>
<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>
<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>
<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>
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<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>
<div class="component-1" data-js="component-1"></div>

<div class="component-2" data-js="component-2"></div>
<div class="component-2" data-js="component-2"></div>
<div class="component-2" data-js="component-2"></div>
<div class="component-2" data-js="component-2"></div>
<div class="component-2" data-js="component-2"></div>
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Tests:

querySelectorAll data attr
var result = document.querySelectorAll("[data-js='component-1']");
querySelectorAll data attr plus node name
var result = document.querySelectorAll("div[data-js='component-1']");
querySelectorAll class name
var result = document.querySelectorAll('.component-1')
querySelectorAll class name plus node name
var result = document.querySelectorAll('div.component-1');
querySelectorAll node name plus class name plus data attr
var result = document.querySelectorAll("div.component-1[data-js='component-1']");
getElementsByClassName
document.getElementsByClassName('component-1')

Run results for: className vs data attr querySelectorAll vs getElementsByClassName

This benchmark compares the performance of different methods for selecting elements in JavaScript: querySelectorAll and getElementsByClassName.

querySelectorAll data attr

querySelectorAll data attr plus node name

querySelectorAll class name

querySelectorAll class name plus node name

querySelectorAll node name plus class name plus data attr

getElementsByClassName