Run results for: getElementsByClassName last element vs getElementById as last element

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
getElementsByClassName last element	3981056.2 Ops/sec
getElementById as last element	7769309.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class='test' id='final'>
  <div class='other'>
    <div class='other'>
      <a href='#'>
        Dummy
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Tests:

getElementsByClassName last element
var final = document.getElementsByClassName('test'); final[final.length - 1];
getElementById as last element
var final = document.getElementById('final'); final;