Run results for: jQuery by className vs Document.getElementsByClassName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8

Browser: Safari 10

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.10.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	0.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	2600640.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div class="testElement"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var el = $(".testElement")[0]; var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementsByClassName('testElement'); var className = el.className;