diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/mutating_webhook_manager.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/mutating_webhook_manager.go
index a1b84780f2b..3ecc00b74cb 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/mutating_webhook_manager.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/mutating_webhook_manager.go
@@ -119,7 +119,12 @@ func (m *mutatingWebhookConfigurationManager) getMutatingWebhookConfigurations(c
 	// but configurations themselves can be in any order. As we are going to run these
 	// webhooks in serial, they are sorted here to have a deterministic order.
 	sort.SliceStable(configurations, MutatingWebhookConfigurationSorter(configurations).ByName)
-	accessors := []webhook.WebhookAccessor{}
+	size := 0
+	for _, cfg := range configurations {
+		size += len(cfg.Webhooks)
+	}
+	accessors := make([]webhook.WebhookAccessor, 0, size)
+
 	for _, c := range configurations {
 		cachedConfigurationAccessors, ok := m.configurationsCache.Load(c.Name)
 		if ok {
@@ -131,7 +136,7 @@ func (m *mutatingWebhookConfigurationManager) getMutatingWebhookConfigurations(c
 		// webhook names are not validated for uniqueness, so we check for duplicates and
 		// add a int suffix to distinguish between them
 		names := map[string]int{}
-		configurationAccessors := []webhook.WebhookAccessor{}
+		configurationAccessors := make([]webhook.WebhookAccessor, 0, len(c.Webhooks))
 		for i := range c.Webhooks {
 			n := c.Webhooks[i].Name
 			uid := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%d", c.Name, n, names[n])
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/validating_webhook_manager.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/validating_webhook_manager.go
index d9c11a9755b..b4233211770 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/validating_webhook_manager.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission/configuration/validating_webhook_manager.go
@@ -116,7 +116,12 @@ func (v *validatingWebhookConfigurationManager) getConfiguration() ([]webhook.We
 // recreating them, which can be expessive (requiring CEL expression recompilation).
 func (v *validatingWebhookConfigurationManager) getValidatingWebhookConfigurations(configurations []*v1.ValidatingWebhookConfiguration) []webhook.WebhookAccessor {
 	sort.SliceStable(configurations, ValidatingWebhookConfigurationSorter(configurations).ByName)
-	accessors := []webhook.WebhookAccessor{}
+	size := 0
+	for _, cfg := range configurations {
+		size += len(cfg.Webhooks)
+	}
+	accessors := make([]webhook.WebhookAccessor, 0, size)
+
 	for _, c := range configurations {
 		cachedConfigurationAccessors, ok := v.configurationsCache.Load(c.Name)
 		if ok {
@@ -128,7 +133,7 @@ func (v *validatingWebhookConfigurationManager) getValidatingWebhookConfiguratio
 		// webhook names are not validated for uniqueness, so we check for duplicates and
 		// add a int suffix to distinguish between them
 		names := map[string]int{}
-		configurationAccessors := []webhook.WebhookAccessor{}
+		configurationAccessors := make([]webhook.WebhookAccessor, 0, len(c.Webhooks))
 		for i := range c.Webhooks {
 			n := c.Webhooks[i].Name
 			uid := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%d", c.Name, n, names[n])