Run results for: getElementsByClassName vs querySelectorAll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3107.4 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 60

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.5

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementsByClassName	474647.4 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	3560.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<style>.searchMe {border: 1px sold red;}</style>
<table id="tableTest"></table>

Script Preparation code:

for(var i=0; i<10000; ++i)
{
  var cell = tableTest.insertRow(-1).insertCell(-1);
  if(i%2==0)
     cell.classList.add('searchMe');
}

Tests:

getElementsByClassName
var found = tableTest.getElementsByClassName('searchMe'); tableTest.rows[0].cells[0].textContent = found.length;
querySelectorAll
var found = tableTest.querySelectorAll('.searchMe'); tableTest.rows[0].cells[0].textContent = found.length;