Run results for: querySelectorAll data attribute vs class name vs combined

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
data attribute	2121333.2 Ops/sec
class name	6814911.5 Ops/sec
class name with data attribute	1232730.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>
<div class="test" data-attribute="test"></div>

Tests:

data attribute
var test = document.querySelectorAll('[data-attribute="test"]');
class name
var test = document.querySelectorAll('.test');
class name with data attribute
var test = document.querySelectorAll('.test[data-attribute="test"]');

Run results for: querySelectorAll data attribute vs class name vs combined

data attribute

class name

class name with data attribute