Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Chromium GOST) 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

Vanilla Get ID

3.7M/s

Vanilla Get Text

1.5M/s

Vanilla Get Html

1.4M/s

Zepto Get ID

954K/s

jQuery Get ID

893K/s

Zepto Get Html

711K/s

jQuery Get Html

629K/s

jQuery Get Text

533K/s

Zepto Get Text

385K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanilla Get ID	3,720,919 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	1,495,254 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	1,356,119 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	954,478 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	893,209 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	711,373 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	628,997 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	532,609 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	385,305 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

jQuery Get ID
var text = jQuery("#foo");
jQuery Get Text
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery Get Html
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
Zepto Get ID
var text = Zepto("#foo");
Zepto Get Text
var text = Zepto("#foo").text();
Zepto Get Html
var text = Zepto("#foo").html();
Vanilla Get ID
var text = document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla Get Text
var text = document.getElementById("foo").textContent;
Vanilla Get Html
var text = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;