Benchmark: jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector vs jQuery Find

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement" class="test class list classes"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0];
getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement');
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector("#testElement");
jQuery Find
var el = $(document).find("#testElement");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jQuery
getElementById
querySelector
jQuery Find

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.5845.888 YaBrowser/23.9.2.888 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Yandex Browser 23 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	2996945.8 Ops/sec
getElementById	8669229.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	4188879.5 Ops/sec
jQuery Find	1425765.1 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):

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**Overview of the Benchmark**

The provided JSON represents a JavaScript microbenchmark test case named "jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector vs jQuery Find". This benchmark compares the performance of four methods to retrieve an element from an HTML document using either jQuery or vanilla JavaScript.

**Tested Options and their Pros/Cons**

1. **jQuery**: A popular JavaScript library that simplifies DOM manipulation.
	* Pros: Easy to use, efficient, and widely adopted.
	* Cons: Adds external dependency, may not be suitable for all projects due to its size and complexity.
2. **getElementById**: A vanilla JavaScript method used to retrieve an element by its ID attribute.
	* Pros: Lightweight, easy to understand, and does not add any external dependencies.
	* Cons: May require more code to achieve the same result as jQuery, especially for complex DOM manipulations.
3. **querySelector**: Another vanilla JavaScript method used to retrieve elements based on a CSS selector.
	* Pros: Similar to getElementById but with more flexibility in terms of selecting elements.
	* Cons: Also lightweight but may be slower than getElementById due to the complexity of the selectors.
4. **jQuery Find**: A variant of jQuery's select() method that finds an element by traversing the DOM tree.
	* Pros: Efficient and easy to use, especially for complex DOM traversals.
	* Cons: Adds external dependency similar to jQuery itself.

**Library Usage**

In the provided benchmark, two libraries are used:

1. **jQuery**: The official jQuery library is included in the HTML file using a script tag.
2. **YaBrowser/23.9.2.888 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36**: A custom user agent string that likely indicates the browser being tested (Yandex Browser 23).

**Special JS Features or Syntax**

The benchmark does not explicitly mention any special JavaScript features or syntax, such as arrow functions, async/await, or Promises.

**Other Alternatives**

If you want to explore alternative methods for retrieving elements from an HTML document, consider the following:

1. **CSSOM**: The CSS Object Model allows you to interact with and manipulate the DOM using CSS selectors.
2. **QuerySelectorAll**: Similar to querySelector but returns a NodeList containing all matching elements instead of just the first one.
3. **getElementsByClassName**: An alternative method for retrieving elements based on their class attribute.

Keep in mind that the choice of method depends on your specific use case, performance requirements, and personal preference.

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jQuery

getElementById

querySelector

jQuery Find

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):