Run results for: Get elements by class: jQuery vs querySelectorAll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	1491148.5 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	1136062.0 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName	10538581.0 Ops/sec
jQuery mixed selector	582693.4 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll mixed selector	879237.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<ul id="theList">
  <li class="odd">Item 1</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 2</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 3</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 4</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 5</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 6</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 7</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 8</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 9</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 10</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 11</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 12</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 13</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 14</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 15</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 16</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 17</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 18</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 19</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 20</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 21</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 22</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 23</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 24</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 25</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 26</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 27</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 28</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 29</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 30</li>    
</ul>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

jQuery
var els = $('.even');
querySelectorAll
var els = document.querySelectorAll('.even');
getElementsByClassName
var els = document.getElementsByClassName('even');
jQuery mixed selector
var els = $('li.even');
querySelectorAll mixed selector
var els = document.querySelectorAll('li.even');

Run results for: Get elements by class: jQuery vs querySelectorAll

Compare various methods of obtaining a group of elements identified by class name

jQuery

querySelectorAll

getElementsByClassName

jQuery mixed selector

querySelectorAll mixed selector