Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById 1.12.4

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	1524511.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	4001984.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.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;