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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 70

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery Get ID	1211218.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	835932.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	617805.9 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	1368818.0 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	376015.4 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	629569.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get ID	3727878.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	3096299.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	1855295.0 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