Run results for: tagname vs classname

Run details:

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

Browser: Firefox 60

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

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

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");