Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName + (fixed/dynamic) length + for

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: 11 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementsByTagName + length + for	5,128,704 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName + dynamic length + for	2,965,264 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll + length + for	1,923,145 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll + dynamic length + for	1,534,497 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName + Array.from + forEach	1,491,236 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll + forEach	1,266,517 Ops/sec

Test name

Executions per second

✓ getElementsByTagName + length + for

5,128,704 Ops/sec

getElementsByTagName + dynamic length + for

2,965,264 Ops/sec

querySelectorAll + length + for

1,923,145 Ops/sec

querySelectorAll + dynamic length + for

1,534,497 Ops/sec

getElementsByTagName + Array.from + forEach

1,491,236 Ops/sec

querySelectorAll + forEach

1,266,517 Ops/sec

Tests:

querySelectorAll + forEach
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); allDivs.forEach(function (div) {});
getElementsByTagName + Array.from + forEach
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); const arrayAllDivs = Array.from(allDivs); arrayAllDivs.forEach(function (div) {});
querySelectorAll + length + for
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); for (var i = 0, ilen = allDivs.length; i < ilen; i++) { /*NOOP*/ }
getElementsByTagName + length + for
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); for (var i = 0, ilen = allDivs.length; i < ilen; i++) { /*NOOP*/ }
querySelectorAll + dynamic length + for
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); for (var i = 0; i < allDivs.length; i++) { /*NOOP*/ }
getElementsByTagName + dynamic length + for
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); for (var i = 0; i < allDivs.length; i++) { /*NOOP*/ }