Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 12

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	2523052.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	1919903.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testElement"></div>

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<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;
var el = document.getElementById('testElement');
var className = el.className;
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement'); var className = el.className;
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement');
var className = el.className;