Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 126

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Vanilla JS

5.7M/s

jQuery

2.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanilla JS	5,736,408 Ops/sec
jQuery	2,843,974 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0]; var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;