Run results for: querySelector vs getElementsByTagName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementsByTagName

43.6M/s

querySelector

22.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementsByTagName	43,612,732 Ops/sec
querySelector	22,759,376 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests: