Benchmark: tagname vs classname

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="ebsta-complex-add-search-container"><input class="ebsta-complex-add-search-input" placeholder="Search Name"><span class="ebsta-complex-add-magnifyicon"></span></div>

Script Preparation code:

var searchContainerElement = document.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-container")[0];

Tests:

classname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("ebsta-complex-add-search-input");
tagname
searchContainerElement.getElementsByClassName("input");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
classname
tagname

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
classname	11461520.0 Ops/sec
tagname	11000670.0 Ops/sec

tagname vs classname (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: classname vs tagname

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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classname

tagname

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A