Run results for: querySelector vs JQuery

Compares the performance of querySelector against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll by Attribute	6625330.0 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Attribute	6079.4 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Class	7264587.5 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Class	15130.0 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Element	7236082.0 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Element	15294.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<content id="demo">Hello World!</content>

Script Preparation code:

let components = '';
for (let i=0; i<10000; i+=1) {
    components += '<div class="component" data-component="component' + i + '">Content ' + i + '</div>'
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = components;

Tests:

querySelectorAll by Attribute
let components = document.querySelector('[data-component]');
jQuery selector by Attribute
let components = $('[data-component]');
querySelectorAll by Class
let components = document.querySelector('.component');
jQuery selector by Class
let components = $('.component');
querySelectorAll by Element
let components = document.querySelector('div');
jQuery selector by Element
let components = $('div');

Run results for: querySelector vs JQuery

Compares the performance of querySelector against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

querySelectorAll by Attribute

jQuery selector by Attribute

querySelectorAll by Class

jQuery selector by Class

querySelectorAll by Element

jQuery selector by Element