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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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 17
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
16.0M/s
jQuery
8.2M/s
querySelector
6.9M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
15,962,296 Ops/sec
jQuery
8,151,878 Ops/sec
querySelector
6,894,228 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");