Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/3.4 Firefox/52.9 PaleMoon/27.9.3

Browser: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) 27

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	0.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	8592373.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

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