Run results for: querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Browser: Firefox 64

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelector	175902.5 Ops/sec
getElementById	856232.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="c1 c2 c3" id="fist-id">
	<div class="c1 c2 c3" id="second-id">
		<div class="c4 c2 c3" id="third-id">
			<div class="c4 c2 c3" id="fourth-id">
				<div class="c4 c5 c3" id="sixth-id">
                    <div class="c4 c5 c6" id="seventh-id">
                      	<div id="blahblah-0"></div>
                      	<div id="blahblah-1"></div>
                      	<div id="blahblah-2"></div>
                      	<div id="blahblah-3"></div>
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                    </div>
  				</div>
          	</div>
  		</div>
  	</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

x = 0;

Tests:

querySelector
let n = (Math.random() * 45) | 0; x = document.querySelector("#blahblah-" + n);
getElementById
let n = (Math.random() * 45) | 0; x = document.getElementById("blahblah-" + n);

Run results for: querySelector

querySelector

getElementById