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getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (simple comparison)
A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0
Browser:
Firefox 152
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
29 days ago
The method getElementsByClassName()
6.8M/s
The method querySelectorAll()
1.3M/s
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Executions per second
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The method getElementsByClassName()
6,847,589 Ops/sec
The method querySelectorAll()
1,294,684 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div> <div class="example container"></div>
Tests:
The method getElementsByClassName()
document.getElementById("example container");
The method querySelectorAll()
document.querySelectorAll(".example.container");