Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 63

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	784834.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	1730945.2 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;