Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	7027210.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	12839490.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var el = $("#testElement")[0]; var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;