Run results for: JQuery: find vs children

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
find with tag selector	247706.2 Ops/sec
children with tag selector	285962.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<a id="parent" >
  <span>Need span</span>
  <svg class="icon md-16 icon-shevron-right text-muted"></svg>
</a>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#parent");

Tests:

find with tag selector
$element.find("span");
children with tag selector
$element.children("span");

Run results for: JQuery: find vs children

Compare which method will quicker search result with tag selector

find with tag selector

children with tag selector