Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName iteration

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_6_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 88

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.6.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll	288702.3 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	227182.6 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) {});