Benchmark: tagname vs classname

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="ebsta-complex-add-search-container"><input class="ebsta-complex-add-search-input" placeholder="Search Name"><span class="ebsta-complex-add-magnifyicon"></span></div>

Script Preparation code:

var searchContainerElement = document.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-container")[0];

Tests:

classname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-input");
tagname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("input");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
classname
tagname

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 60 on Windows 7

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Test name	Executions per second
classname	279894300.0 Ops/sec
tagname	287081400.0 Ops/sec

tagname vs classname (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: classname vs tagname

Created: 6 years ago by: Registered User

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classname

tagname

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A