Run results for: querySelector vs. getElementById Performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 144

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

getElementById

44.0M/s

querySelector

9.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementById	43,991,452 Ops/sec
querySelector	9,784,663 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el"></div>

Tests:

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