Run results for: querySelector by attribute (partial matching) VS getElementById VS getElementsByTagName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getElementById

21.6M/s

getElementsByTagName

11.1M/s

querySelector by attribute (partial matching) - variant (starts with)

2.7M/s

querySelector by attribute (partial matching)

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	21,583,268 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	11,061,958 Ops/sec
querySelector by attribute (partial matching) - variant (starts with)	2,714,571 Ops/sec
querySelector by attribute (partial matching)	2,666,290 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<video id="vid" src="blob:https://example.com/file.mp4"></video>

Tests:

querySelector by attribute (partial matching)
var test_one = document.querySelector("video[src*='blob:http']");
querySelector by attribute (partial matching) - variant (starts with)
var test_one_variant = document.querySelector("video[src^='blob:http']");
getElementById
var test_two = document.getElementById("vid");
getElementsByTagName
var test_three = document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];