Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector 2025 year version

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0

Browser: Firefox 140

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getElementById

7.2M/s

querySelector

3.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	7,240,954 Ops/sec
querySelector	3,916,791 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests: