Run results for: Query Selector v Sizzle

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.0 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

qs Class

19.4M/s

qs ID

12.7M/s

sizzle ID

9.2M/s

sizzle Class

4.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ qs Class	19,425,170 Ops/sec
qs ID	12,746,743 Ops/sec
sizzle ID	9,218,926 Ops/sec
sizzle Class	4,863,678 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="test" class="m">a</div>
<div class="m">b</div>

Script Preparation code:

var select = function(selector) {
	if (!selector) return null
	
	if (selector.charAt(0) == '#') {
		return document.querySelector(selector)
	} else {
		var result = document.querySelectorAll(selector)
		switch (result.length) {
			case 0:
				return null
			case 1:
				return result[0]
			default:
				return result
		}
	}
}

Tests:

qs ID
select('#test')
qs Class
select('.m')
sizzle ID
$('#test')
sizzle Class
$('.m')