Benchmark: jquerySelector vs getElementById and getElementsByTagName

HTML Preparation code:

<table id="table">
  <thead>
    <th>Name</th>
  </thead>
  <tbody></tbody>
</table>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

jQuery Selector
var el = $('#table tbody'); var className = el.className;
getElementById & getElementsByTagName
var el = document.getElementById('table').getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0] var className = el.className;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jQuery Selector
getElementById & getElementsByTagName

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 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 109 on Ubuntu

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Test name	Executions per second
jQuery Selector	559890.6 Ops/sec
getElementById & getElementsByTagName	2714786.0 Ops/sec

jquerySelector vs getElementById and getElementsByTagName (version: 0)

jquery selector vs vanilla javascript selectors

Comparing performance of: jQuery Selector vs getElementById & getElementsByTagName

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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jQuery Selector

getElementById & getElementsByTagName

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A