Run results for: Vanilla JS vs jQuery Selectors - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS ID Selector	12516590.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS Class Selector	11423943.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS Data Hook	3078317.2 Ops/sec
jQuery ID Selector	4618500.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Class Selector	2238956.5 Ops/sec
jQuery Data Hook Selector	1362729.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" class="bar" data-hook="test">Hello World</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>

Tests:

Vanilla JS ID Selector
document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla JS Class Selector
document.getElementsByClassName("bar");
Vanilla JS Data Hook
document.querySelectorAll('[data-hook="test"]');
jQuery ID Selector
$("#foo");
jQuery Class Selector
$(".bar");
jQuery Data Hook Selector
$('[data-hook="test"]');