Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Browser: Firefox 130

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementById

6.4M/s

querySelector

3.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	6,398,984 Ops/sec
querySelector	3,591,570 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement'); var className = el.className;