Run results for: Updated 4/2018: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto vs Umbrella vs Bliss JS Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.183 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.96.1147.64

Browser: Chrome 65

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla Get ID	2576999.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	1885052.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	1066814.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	990479.1 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	752156.1 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	595563.6 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	983365.4 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	479339.9 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	562365.7 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get ID	315015.3 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get Text	301631.6 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get HTML	260966.4 Ops/sec
Bliss Get ID	993291.6 Ops/sec
Bliss Get Text	869466.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/umbrella/2.10.1/umbrella.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://blissfuljs.com/bliss.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Vanilla Get ID
var text = document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla Get Text
var text = document.getElementById("foo").textContent;
Vanilla Get Html
var text = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;
jQuery Get ID
var text = jQuery("#foo");
jQuery Get Text
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery Get Html
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
Zepto Get ID
var text = Zepto("#foo");
Zepto Get Text
var text = Zepto("#foo").text();
Zepto Get Html
var text = Zepto("#foo").html();
Umbrella Get ID
var text = u("#foo");
Umbrella Get Text
var text = u("#foo").text();
Umbrella Get HTML
var text = u("#foo").html();
Bliss Get ID
var text = Bliss("#foo");
Bliss Get Text
var text = Bliss("#foo").textContent;

Run results for: Updated 4/2018: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto vs Umbrella vs Bliss JS Library Speed Test

Vanilla Get ID

Vanilla Get Text

Vanilla Get Html

jQuery Get ID

jQuery Get Text

jQuery Get Html

Zepto Get ID

Zepto Get Text

Zepto Get Html

Umbrella Get ID

Umbrella Get Text

Umbrella Get HTML

Bliss Get ID

Bliss Get Text