Run results for: jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector vs $(getElementById) jquery 3.6.3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 111

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	4639122.0 Ops/sec
getElementById	10660162.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	2877241.5 Ops/sec
$(getElementById)	4340357.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement" class="test class list classes"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0];
getElementById
var el = document.getElementById('testElement');
querySelector
var el = document.querySelector("#testElement");
$(getElementById)
var el = $(document.getElementById('testElement'));

Run results for: jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector vs $(getElementById) jquery 3.6.3

Comparing speed of getting element by id with jQuery vs Vanilla JS with getElementById and querySelector

jQuery

getElementById

querySelector

$(getElementById)