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Run results for: getElementById VS querySelector (simple comparison)

A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36
Chrome 96
Windows 8
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
The method getElementById() 4381607.5 Ops/sec
The method querySelector() 2133348.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
Tests:

  • The method getElementById()

  • The method querySelector()