Run results for: jQuery vs vanilla JS in selector class

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementsByClassName	2042774.0 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	469746.6 Ops/sec
jQuery	206673.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 4</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 5</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 6</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 7</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 8</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 9</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 10</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var nodes;

Tests:

getElementsByClassName
nodes = document.getElementsByClassName('classname');
querySelectorAll
nodes = document.querySelectorAll('.classname');
jQuery
nodes = $('.classname');

Run results for: jQuery vs vanilla JS in selector class

getElementsByClassName

querySelectorAll

jQuery