Run results for: getElementById vs getElementsByName

Run details:

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 OPR/119.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getElementById

23.6M/s

getElementsByName

8.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	23,606,116 Ops/sec
getElementsByName	8,160,898 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests: