Run results for: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.55 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 96

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
childNodes	674337.3 Ops/sec
children	1029525.3 Ops/sec
firstChild nextSibling	5531421.0 Ops/sec
firstElementChild nextElementChild	7630134.0 Ops/sec
ChildNodes2	1967210.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<html>

<body>
    <div id='test'>
        <div name='a'></div>
        <div name='b'></div>
        <div name='c'></div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.getElementById('test');

Tests:

childNodes
parent.childNodes.forEach(function (node) { let n = node; });
children
for (let i = 0; i < parent.children.length; i++) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
firstChild nextSibling
let elem = parent.firstChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextSibling)
firstElementChild nextElementChild
let elem = parent.firstElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextElementSibling)
ChildNodes2
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) { let n = children[i]; }

Run results for: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling

Fastest way to list children

childNodes

children

firstChild nextSibling

firstElementChild nextElementChild

ChildNodes2