Run results for: getElementById() vs jQuery(#id)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Browser: Firefox 64

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	1934717.0 Ops/sec
jQuery	2570961.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo" class="foo2"></div>

Tests:

getElementById
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var className = el.className;
jQuery
var el = $("#foo"); var className = el.className;