Benchmark: getElementById vs querySelector (2023.05)

HTML Preparation code:

<html>
  <body>
    <div id="test5"></div>
    <div id="test4"></div>
    <div id="test3"></div>
    <div id="test2"></div>
    <div id="test1"></div>
  </body>
</html>

Tests:

getElementById
document.getElementById("test1");
querySelector
document.querySelector("#test1");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
getElementById
querySelector

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 120 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	4395644.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	2232002.0 Ops/sec

getElementById vs querySelector (2023.05) (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: getElementById vs querySelector

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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getElementById

querySelector

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A