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Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName with two different tag names

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Chrome Mobile 119
Android
Mobile
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
querySelectorAll 65397.2 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName 72217.5 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<div></div>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
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<a></a>
Tests:

  • querySelectorAll

     
    const allDivsAndAnchors = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('div, a'));
    allDivsAndAnchors.forEach(function (el) {});

  • getElementsByTagName

     
    const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
    const allAnchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    const allDivsAndAnchors = Array.from(allDivs).concat(Array.from(allAnchors));
    allDivsAndAnchors.forEach(function (el) {});