Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName iteration

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementsByTagName

1.1M/s

querySelectorAll

998K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementsByTagName	1,132,224 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	998,388 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>

Tests:

querySelectorAll
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); allDivs.forEach(function (div) {});
getElementsByTagName
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); const arrayAllDivs = Array.from(allDivs); arrayAllDivs.forEach(function (div) {});