Run results for: jQuery selector vs find

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

jQuery raw

850K/s

jQuery find

616K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ jQuery raw	849,999 Ops/sec
jQuery find	616,467 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="outer">
  <div class="inner"></div>
</div>

Tests:

jQuery raw
$('.outer .inner').on('click', function (e) {});
jQuery find
const $outer = $('.outer'); $outer.find('.inner').on('click', function (e) {});