Run results for: children vs queryselector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

queryselector

1.9M/s

children

1.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ queryselector	1,907,298 Ops/sec
children	1,668,104 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div><custom-element></custom-element></div>

Tests:

children
const divs = document.querySelectorAll("div") Array.from(divs).map(div => { div.children[0] })
queryselector
const divs = document.querySelectorAll("div") Array.from(divs).map(div => { div.querySelector('custom-element') })