Run results for: jQuery addClass vs classList.add

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.1.3

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery addClass	784608.6 Ops/sec
Javascript classList.add	3056657.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el"></div>

Script Preparation code:

document.getElementById("el").classList.remove("test");

Tests: