Run results for: getElementById and getElementsByClassName [0] vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	13226237.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	5695793.5 Ops/sec
getElementById and getElementsByClassName	6039540.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique1" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test1</div>
  <div id="unique2" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="2">test2</div>
  <div id="unique3" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="3">test3</div>
  <div id="unique4" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="4">test4</div>
  <div id="unique5" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="5">test5</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests:

getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.querySelector('#testdiv .unique').innerHTML;
getElementById and getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;

Run results for: getElementById and getElementsByClassName [0] vs querySelector

Test performance of different ways of get just one particular DOM element

getElementById

querySelector

getElementById and getElementsByClassName