Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName iteration

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Browser: Firefox 90

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll	501071.0 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	533371.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>

Tests:

querySelectorAll
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); allDivs.forEach(function (div) {});
getElementsByTagName
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); const arrayAllDivs = Array.from(allDivs); arrayAllDivs.forEach(function (div) {});