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jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById
Comparing speed of getting element by id with jQuery vs Vanilla JS
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 118
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
Vanilla JS
3.1M/s
jQuery
964K/s
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Executions per second
✓
Vanilla JS
3,064,194 Ops/sec
jQuery
964,079 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script> <div id="testElement"></div>
Tests:
jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0]; var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;