Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector vs getElementsByClassName vs getElementsByName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SM-G950F Build/PPR1.180610.011) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/52.2.2517.139816

Browser: Opera Mobile 52

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	1855462.2 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	454273.4 Ops/sec
querySelector	505567.9 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName	480236.8 Ops/sec
getElementsByName	531732.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests:

getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByTagName
var formelem = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByTagName('div')[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').querySelector('.unique').innerHTML;
getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByName
var test = doc.getElementsByName('unique')[0].innerHTML;

Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector vs getElementsByClassName vs getElementsByName

Test performance of different ways of get just one particular DOM element

getElementById

getElementsByTagName

querySelector

getElementsByClassName

getElementsByName