Run results for: document.documentElement vs document.querySelector("html")

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Direct access

13.6M/s

querySelector

10.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Direct access	13,648,050 Ops/sec
querySelector	10,085,565 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="foo"></div>
</body>
</html>

Tests: