Run results for: jQuery removeClass vs classList.remove

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Safari/605.1.15 Ddg/18.6

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 months ago

Javascript classList.add

14.2M/s

jQuery addClass

5.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Javascript classList.add	14,232,582 Ops/sec
jQuery addClass	4,977,292 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.add("test");

Tests:

jQuery addClass
$("#el").removeClass("test");
Javascript classList.add
document.getElementById("el").classList.remove("test");