Benchmark: querySelectorAll: id vs tag vs class

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <a id="tr_1" class="c-1">
    <span id="tr_2" class="c-2"></span>
  </a>
  <div id="tr_3" class="c-3"></div>
 </div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

find by id
document.querySelectorAll("#tr_1"); document.querySelectorAll("#tr_2"); document.querySelectorAll("#tr_3");
find by class
document.querySelectorAll(".c-1"); document.querySelectorAll(".c-2"); document.querySelectorAll(".c-3");
find by tag
document.querySelectorAll("a"); document.querySelectorAll("span"); document.querySelectorAll("div");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
find by id
find by class
find by tag

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 91 on Ubuntu

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Test name	Executions per second
find by id	415746.2 Ops/sec
find by class	467583.6 Ops/sec
find by tag	466669.9 Ops/sec

querySelectorAll: id vs tag vs class (version: 0)

test which selector is better for find element

Comparing performance of: find by id vs find by class vs find by tag

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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find by id

find by class

find by tag

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A