Run results for: jQuery vs Vanilla JS Speed Test - FP

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	5.9 Ops/sec
VanillaJS	86.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="target">Hello World</div>

Tests:

jQuery
var $target = $('body'); for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { $target.append($('<div class="test-div"/>')); }
VanillaJS
for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const e = document.createElement('div'); e.className = 'test-div'; document.getElementById('target').appendChild(e); }