Run results for: getElementById vs getElementsByName

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

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getElementById

1031.9M/s

getElementsByName

11.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	1,031,869,632 Ops/sec
getElementsByName	11,730,330 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests: