Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Browser: Firefox 148

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

getElementById

7.0M/s

querySelector

4.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	6,960,299 Ops/sec
querySelector	4,498,056 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;