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 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 70

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla Get ID	2786864.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	2480657.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	1406609.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	1025445.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	607973.4 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	688992.8 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	1229368.0 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	555958.0 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	680930.3 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get ID	380110.1 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get Text	351772.3 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get HTML	298711.3 Ops/sec
Bliss Get ID	1296617.0 Ops/sec
Bliss Get Text	1175375.0 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