Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	3460149.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	7181056.0 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;

Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

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

jQuery

Vanilla JS