Run results for: getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (simple comparison)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Browser: Firefox 122

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
The method getElementsByClassName()	11330236.0 Ops/sec
The method querySelectorAll()	1925384.4 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()