Run results for: querySelectorAll vs JQuery

Compares the performance of querySelectorAll against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 126

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
querySelectorAll by Attribute	354.2 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Attribute	76.6 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Class	623.3 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Class	91.6 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll by Element	632.3 Ops/sec
jQuery selector by Element	91.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<content id="demo">Hello World!</content>

Script Preparation code:

let components = '';
for (let i=0; i<10000; i+=1) {
    components += '<div class="component" data-component="component' + i + '">Content ' + i + '</div>'
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = components;

Tests:

querySelectorAll by Attribute
let components = document.querySelectorAll('[data-component]');
jQuery selector by Attribute
let components = $('[data-component]');
querySelectorAll by Class
let components = document.querySelectorAll('.component');
jQuery selector by Class
let components = $('.component');
querySelectorAll by Element
let components = document.querySelectorAll('div');
jQuery selector by Element
let components = $('div');

Run results for: querySelectorAll vs JQuery

Compares the performance of querySelectorAll against JQuery for selecting elements. For class selector, getElementsByClassName is the best. For element selector, getElementsByTagName is the best.

querySelectorAll by Attribute

jQuery selector by Attribute

querySelectorAll by Class

jQuery selector by Class

querySelectorAll by Element

jQuery selector by Element