Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_3_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13G36 Safari/601.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 9

Operating system: iOS 9.3.5

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	536887.4 Ops/sec
querySelector	352843.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector('#testElement'); var className = el.className;