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/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 139

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

getElementById

40.3M/s

querySelector

10.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	40,327,904 Ops/sec
querySelector	9,976,693 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests: