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Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Comparing speed of getting element by id with jQuery vs Vanilla JS

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 OPR/52.0.2871.64
Opera 52
Mac OS X 10.13.4
Other
7 years ago
Test name Executions per second
jQuery 3.1.1 Slim 818880.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS 4350174.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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1
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>
2
<div class="test"></div>
3
<div class="test2"></div>
Tests:

  • jQuery 3.1.1 Slim

     
    var el = $(".test");

  • Vanilla JS

     
    var el = document.getElementsByClassName('test');