Run results for: jQuery vs Vanilla JavaScript

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
jquery	152263.5 Ops/sec
vanilla js	318725.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div id="test"></div>

Tests:

jquery
$("div").append($("ul")).append($("li"))
vanilla js
let div = document.getElementById('test'); let ul = document.createElement('ul'); ul.className = 'test-list'; let li = document.createElement('li'); li.className = 'test-item'; ul.append(li); div.append(ul);