Run results for: Cached querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

cached

624.7M/s

uncached

26.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cached	624,693,696 Ops/sec
uncached	26,823,406 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="fir" class="hi">
  <div id='no' class="ss">
  	<div id='ff' class="fox">
      <button class="target"></button>
      <button class="target"></button>
      <button class="target"></button>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var cache = {};

Tests:

uncached
var el = document.querySelectorAll('target');
cached
var el = cache['target']; if (!el) { el = document.querySelectorAll('target'); cache['target'] = el; }

Run results for: Cached querySelector

Testing if caching querySelector makes a diference

uncached

cached