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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 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/126.0.6478.153 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Chrome Mobile iOS 126
Operating system:
iOS 17.5
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
13.0M/s
jQuery
6.5M/s
querySelector
5.7M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
13,009,483 Ops/sec
jQuery
6,530,634 Ops/sec
querySelector
5,691,800 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");