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 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Redmi 3S Build/MMB29M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.158 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/47.3.2249.130976

Browser: Opera Mobile 47

Operating system: Android 6.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla Get ID	351782.7 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	284083.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	156951.8 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	146976.4 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	109638.4 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	84810.5 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	111258.6 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	39252.4 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	83866.5 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get ID	51638.8 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get Text	46633.2 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get HTML	39280.7 Ops/sec
Bliss Get ID	163696.7 Ops/sec
Bliss Get Text	151057.2 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