Benchmark: querySelector vs getElementsByClassName (get first element)

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test" class="test"></div>

Tests:

querySelector
document.querySelector(".test")
getElementsByClassName (first element of)
document.getElementsByClassName(".test")[0]
getElementById
document.getElementById("test")

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
querySelector
getElementsByClassName (first element of)
getElementById

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/122.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 122 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
querySelector	5316136.0 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName (first element of)	3526762.0 Ops/sec
getElementById	4539970.0 Ops/sec

querySelector vs getElementsByClassName (get first element) (version: 0)