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getElementById VS querySelector (simple comparison)
A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 134
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
The method getElementById()
16.4M/s
The method querySelector()
3.2M/s
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✓
The method getElementById()
16,357,200 Ops/sec
The method querySelector()
3,217,793 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="example"></div>
Tests:
The method getElementById()
document.getElementById("example");
The method querySelector()
document.querySelector("#example");