Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector 2025 year version

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/138.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementById

12.8M/s

querySelector

3.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	12,753,299 Ops/sec
querySelector	2,952,160 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests: