Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Vanilla Get ID

27.6M/s

Vanilla Get Text

9.4M/s

Vanilla Get Html

6.0M/s

jQuery Get ID

4.1M/s

Zepto Get ID

3.2M/s

jQuery Get Html

2.2M/s

jQuery Get Text

2.0M/s

Zepto Get Html

1.3M/s

Zepto Get Text

908K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanilla Get ID	27,611,052 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	9,389,671 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	6,002,634 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	4,109,075 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	3,183,818 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	2,163,463 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	1,978,997 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	1,338,372 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	907,696 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

jQuery Get ID
var text = jQuery("#foo");
jQuery Get Text
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery Get Html
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
Zepto Get ID
var text = Zepto("#foo");
Zepto Get Text
var text = Zepto("#foo").text();
Zepto Get Html
var text = Zepto("#foo").html();
Vanilla Get ID
var text = document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla Get Text
var text = document.getElementById("foo").textContent;
Vanilla Get Html
var text = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;