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jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector
Comparing speed of getting element by id with jQuery vs Vanilla JS with getElementById and querySelector
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0
Browser:
Firefox 120
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
4.5M/s
jQuery
3.4M/s
querySelector
2.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
4,454,997 Ops/sec
jQuery
3,437,990 Ops/sec
querySelector
2,132,404 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script> <div id="testElement" class="test class list classes"></div>
Tests:
jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0];
getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement');
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector("#testElement");