Run results for: Updated 4/2018: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto vs Umbrella vs Bliss JS Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Browser: Firefox 60

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla Get ID	2145748.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	1472268.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	1388262.2 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	1702403.1 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	1164583.2 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	1078125.2 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	1716091.2 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	719059.5 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	955648.0 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get ID	304325.6 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get Text	268335.5 Ops/sec
Umbrella Get HTML	266362.6 Ops/sec
Bliss Get ID	1489798.0 Ops/sec
Bliss Get Text	1204751.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/umbrella/2.10.1/umbrella.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://blissfuljs.com/bliss.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Vanilla Get ID
var text = document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla Get Text
var text = document.getElementById("foo").textContent;
Vanilla Get Html
var text = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;
jQuery Get ID
var text = jQuery("#foo");
jQuery Get Text
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery Get Html
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
Zepto Get ID
var text = Zepto("#foo");
Zepto Get Text
var text = Zepto("#foo").text();
Zepto Get Html
var text = Zepto("#foo").html();
Umbrella Get ID
var text = u("#foo");
Umbrella Get Text
var text = u("#foo").text();
Umbrella Get HTML
var text = u("#foo").html();
Bliss Get ID
var text = Bliss("#foo");
Bliss Get Text
var text = Bliss("#foo").textContent;

Run results for: Updated 4/2018: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto vs Umbrella vs Bliss JS Library Speed Test

Vanilla Get ID

Vanilla Get Text

Vanilla Get Html

jQuery Get ID

jQuery Get Text

jQuery Get Html

Zepto Get ID

Zepto Get Text

Zepto Get Html

Umbrella Get ID

Umbrella Get Text

Umbrella Get HTML

Bliss Get ID

Bliss Get Text