Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; LG-K420 Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.84 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 55

Operating system: Android 6.0

Device Platform: LG K420

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	117425.7 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	312378.7 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;