Run results for: getElementById vs QuerySelector nested element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/95.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 95

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById + firstElementChild	3022401.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	1603711.0 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");