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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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 125
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
3.9M/s
querySelector
2.1M/s
jQuery
1.6M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
3,893,694 Ops/sec
querySelector
2,072,212 Ops/sec
jQuery
1,640,515 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");