Run results for: jQuery vs vanilla JS in selector class

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 79

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.3

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getElementsByClassName	2185730.0 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	592210.8 Ops/sec
jQuery	325027.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 4</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 5</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 6</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 7</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 8</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 9</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 10</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var nodes;

Tests:

getElementsByClassName
nodes = document.getElementsByClassName('classname');
querySelectorAll
nodes = document.querySelectorAll('.classname');
jQuery
nodes = $('.classname');

Run results for: jQuery vs vanilla JS in selector class

getElementsByClassName

querySelectorAll

jQuery