Run results for: Simple Test of Finding Document Element by Id

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 OPR/52.0.2871.64

Browser: Opera 52

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.4

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS	4737913.5 Ops/sec
JQuery 3.3.1	1747257.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div id='test'></div>

Tests:

Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById("test");
JQuery 3.3.1
var el = $("#test");

Run results for: Simple Test of Finding Document Element by Id

Vanilla JS vs JQuery 3.3.1 - Find which will find the element id faster.

Vanilla JS

JQuery 3.3.1