Benchmark: querySelectorAll vs JQuery

querySelectorAll vs JQuery (version: 2)

Compares the performance of querySelectorAll against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

Comparing performance of: querySelectorAll by Attribute vs jQuery selector by Attribute vs querySelectorAll by Class vs jQuery selector by Class vs querySelectorAll by Element vs jQuery selector by Element

Created: 6 years ago by: Registered User

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HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<content id="demo">Hello World!</content>

Script Preparation code:

let components = '';
for (let i=0; i<10000; i+=1) {
    components += '<div class="component" data-component="component' + i + '">Content ' + i + '</div>'
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = components;

Tests:

querySelectorAll by Attribute
let components = document.querySelectorAll('[data-component]');
jQuery selector by Attribute
let components = $('[data-component]');
querySelectorAll by Class
let components = document.querySelectorAll('.component');
jQuery selector by Class
let components = $('.component');
querySelectorAll by Element
let components = document.querySelectorAll('div');
jQuery selector by Element
let components = $('div');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
querySelectorAll by Attribute
jQuery selector by Attribute
querySelectorAll by Class
jQuery selector by Class
querySelectorAll by Element
jQuery selector by Element

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Run details: (Test run date: 5 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 128 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll by Attribute	4951.0 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Attribute	957.6 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Class	10471.4 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Class	1226.6 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Element	11000.7 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Element	1215.6 Ops/sec

querySelectorAll vs JQuery (version: 2)

Compares the performance of querySelectorAll against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

Comparing performance of: querySelectorAll by Attribute vs jQuery selector by Attribute vs querySelectorAll by Class vs jQuery selector by Class vs querySelectorAll by Element vs jQuery selector by Element

Created: 6 years ago by: Registered User

Jump to the latest result

querySelectorAll by Attribute

jQuery selector by Attribute

querySelectorAll by Class

jQuery selector by Class

querySelectorAll by Element

jQuery selector by Element

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A