Run results for: querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll	1875.4 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName	1998.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>

Tests:

querySelectorAll
const allDivs = document.querySelectorAll('div'); allDivs.forEach(function (div) { console.log(div); });
getElementsByTagName
const allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); const arrayAllDivs = Array.from(allDivs); arrayAllDivs.forEach(function (div) { console.log(div); });