Run results for: getElementById vs QuerySelector nested element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 111

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById + firstElementChild	5377590.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	2628985.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<div id="testElmt">
  <p>paragraph</p>
</div>

Tests:

getElementById + firstElementChild
const par = document.getElementById("testElmt").firstElementChild;
querySelector
const par = document.querySelector("#testElmt p");