Run results for: jQuery addClass vs classList.add

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Javascript classList.add

1.3M/s

jQuery addClass

976K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Javascript classList.add	1,342,822 Ops/sec
jQuery addClass	976,303 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el"></div>

Script Preparation code:

document.getElementById("el").classList.remove("test");

Tests: