Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/604.4.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.2 Safari/604.4.7

Browser: Safari 11

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	2627351.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	1633404.0 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;