Benchmark: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById vs Document.querySelector

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<div id="cadre_slider_decoration" class="twentytwenty-container">
								<img src="https://www.w3schools.com/css/trolltunga.jpg" id="image_slider_decoration_before" class="image_slider_decoration twentytwenty-before" style="clip: rect(0px 225.5px 301px 0px);">
								<img src="https://www.w3schools.com/css/trolltunga.jpg" id="image_slider_decoration_after" class="image_slider_decoration twentytwenty-after">
							<div class="twentytwenty-overlay"><div class="twentytwenty-before-label"></div><div class="twentytwenty-after-label"></div></div><div class="twentytwenty-handle" style="left: 225.5px;"><span class="twentytwenty-left-arrow"></span><span class="twentytwenty-right-arrow"></span></div></div>

Tests:

jQuery
var sliderW; for(var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){ sliderW = $("#image_slider_decoration_after"); }
getElementById
var sliderW; for(var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){ sliderW = document.getElementById("image_slider_decoration_after") }
querySelector
var sliderW; for(var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){ sliderW = document.querySelector("#image_slider_decoration_after") }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jQuery
getElementById
querySelector

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Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 80 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	1.5 Ops/sec
getElementById	4.1 Ops/sec
querySelector	2.2 Ops/sec

jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById vs Document.querySelector (version: 0)

Comparing speed of getting element by id with jQuery vs Vanilla JS

Comparing performance of: jQuery vs getElementById vs querySelector

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

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jQuery

getElementById

querySelector

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

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