Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser: Firefox 147

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

getElementById

2.2M/s

querySelector

1.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	2,249,886 Ops/sec
querySelector	1,645,252 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement'); var className = el.className;