Run results for: id vs attribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

id selector

9.2M/s

attribute selector

9.0M/s

beginning with attribute selector

8.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ id selector	9,232,063 Ops/sec
attribute selector	8,989,975 Ops/sec
beginning with attribute selector	8,773,790 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="variableContainerSso"></div>

Script Preparation code:

/*your preparation JavaScript code goes here
To execute async code during the script preparation, wrap it as function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction, example:*/
async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
    // This function is optional, feel free to remove it.
    // await someThing();
}

Tests:

beginning with attribute selector
document.querySelector("div[id^='variableContainerSso']")
attribute selector
document.querySelector("div[id='variableContainerSso']")
id selector
document.querySelector("#variableContainerSso")