Run results for: getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (simple comparison)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
The method getElementsByClassName()	5388264.5 Ops/sec
The method querySelectorAll()	979717.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>
<div class="example container"></div>

Tests:

The method getElementsByClassName()
document.getElementById("example container");
The method querySelectorAll()
document.querySelectorAll(".example.container");

Run results for: getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (simple comparison)

A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)

The method getElementsByClassName()

The method querySelectorAll()