Run results for: querySelector vs getElementsByTagName simple select

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Browser: Firefox 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelector for existing element	5704192.5 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName for existing element	11815774.0 Ops/sec
querySelector for none existing element	5739138.0 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName for none existing element	12158571.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <test><test2></test2></test>
  <test><test2><test3></test3></test2></test>
  <test></test>
</div>

Tests:

querySelector for existing element
const found = document.querySelector('div');
getElementsByTagName for existing element
const found = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
querySelector for none existing element
const found = document.querySelector('span');
getElementsByTagName for none existing element
const found = document.getElementsByTagName('span');