Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 69

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery Get ID	1630194.1 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	1184360.9 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Html	1025529.2 Ops/sec
Zepto Get ID	1676260.2 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Text	810678.8 Ops/sec
Zepto Get Html	1095349.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get ID	4142938.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	3493441.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Html	2034666.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

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();
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;

Run results for: Vanilla vs jQuery vs Zepto Library Speed Test

jQuery Get ID

jQuery Get Text

jQuery Get Html

Zepto Get ID

Zepto Get Text

Zepto Get Html

Vanilla Get ID

Vanilla Get Text

Vanilla Get Html