Run results for: Get elements by class: jQuery vs querySelectorAll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getElementsByClassName

10.5M/s

jQuery

1.5M/s

querySelectorAll

1.1M/s

querySelectorAll mixed selector

879K/s

jQuery mixed selector

583K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getElementsByClassName	10,538,581 Ops/sec
jQuery	1,491,148 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	1,136,062 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll mixed selector	879,237 Ops/sec
jQuery mixed selector	582,693 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<ul id="theList">
  <li class="odd">Item 1</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 2</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 3</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 4</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 5</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 6</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 7</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 8</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 9</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 10</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 11</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 12</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 13</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 14</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 15</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 16</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 17</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 18</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 19</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 20</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 21</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 22</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 23</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 24</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 25</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 26</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 27</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 28</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 29</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 30</li>    
</ul>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

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