Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector 2025 year version

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 137

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementById

57.4M/s

querySelector

11.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	57,410,904 Ops/sec
querySelector	11,332,079 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests: