Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Browser: Firefox 119

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	7282562.5 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	5326298.5 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")[0]; var className = el.className;
Vanilla JS
var el = document.getElementById('testElement'); var className = el.className;