Benchmark Run Result for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById 2.0

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	1142448.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	3068032.0 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"); var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;