Benchmark: JQuery: find with id vs find with tag name vs global id selector

HTML Preparation code:

<a id="parent" >
  <span id="child">Need span</span>
  <svg class="icon md-16 icon-shevron-right text-muted"></svg>
</a>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#parent");

Tests:

within element find with tag selector
$element.find("span");
within element find with id
$element.find("#child");
global find with id
$("#child");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
within element find with tag selector
within element find with id
global find with id

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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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/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 105 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
within element find with tag selector	1188193.0 Ops/sec
within element find with id	1469971.0 Ops/sec
global find with id	1820123.0 Ops/sec

JQuery: find with id vs find with tag name vs global id selector (version: 0)

Test which solution find quicker element

Comparing performance of: within element find with tag selector vs within element find with id vs global find with id

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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within element find with tag selector

within element find with id

global find with id

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A