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Run results for: getElementById VS querySelector (simple comparison)

A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 116
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
11 days ago
Test name Executions per second
The method getElementById() 6785717.0 Ops/sec
The method querySelector() 1476622.6 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="example"></div>
Tests:

  • The method getElementById()

     
    document.getElementById("example");

  • The method querySelector()

     
    document.querySelector("#example");