Run results for: tagname vs classname

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 54

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
classname	4814118.0 Ops/sec
tagname	4774602.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="ebsta-complex-add-search-container"><input class="ebsta-complex-add-search-input" placeholder="Search Name"><span class="ebsta-complex-add-magnifyicon"></span></div>

Script Preparation code:

var searchContainerElement = document.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-container")[0];

Tests:

classname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-input");
tagname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("input");