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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 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0
Browser:
Firefox 125
Operating system:
Ubuntu
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
5.9M/s
jQuery
4.5M/s
querySelector
2.7M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
5,902,455 Ops/sec
jQuery
4,454,028 Ops/sec
querySelector
2,704,524 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");