Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser: Firefox 62

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery Get ID	3038641.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	1820388.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	1377064.0 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	2251805.0 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	734059.5 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	1138596.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get ID	3580879.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	2534227.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	2027032.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

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();
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;

Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

jQuery Get ID

jQuery Get Text

jQuery Get Html

Zepto Get ID

Zepto Get Text

Zepto Get Html

Vanilla Get ID

Vanilla Get Text

Vanilla Get Html