Run results for: jQuery vs Native JS

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

native - cached.

8.3M/s

native - global

4.9M/s

jQuery - find ~ cached.

692K/s

jQuery - find ~ without cache.

619K/s

jQuery - using context.

585K/s

jQuery init after using native DOM

529K/s

jQuery - using data attributes.

473K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ native - cached.	8,337,182 Ops/sec
native - global	4,919,249 Ops/sec
jQuery - find ~ cached.	692,422 Ops/sec
jQuery - find ~ without cache.	619,436 Ops/sec
jQuery - using context.	585,353 Ops/sec
jQuery init after using native DOM	528,533 Ops/sec
jQuery - using data attributes.	473,279 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div id="main-container">
    <ul>
        <li id="element-1" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-1" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li id="element-2" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-2" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li id="element-3" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-3" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li id="element-4" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-4" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li id="element-5" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-5" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li id="element-6" class="elements">
            <div>
                <span data-target="f-page-options-6" class="f-page-options"></span>
            </div>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var mainContainer = document.getElementById('main-container');
var $mainContainer = $('#main-container');

Tests:

jQuery - find ~ cached.
$mainContainer.find('.f-page-options')
jQuery - find ~ without cache.
$('.f-page-options')
native - global
document.getElementsByClassName('f-page-options')
native - cached.
mainContainer.getElementsByClassName('f-page-options')
jQuery - using context.
$('.f-page-options', $mainContainer)
jQuery - using data attributes.
$('span[data-target="f-page-options-1"]')
jQuery init after using native DOM
var el = document.getElementsByClassName('f-page-options'); $(el)