Run results for: jQuery by id vs Document.getElementById

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.0; Mobile; rv:58.0) Gecko/58.0 Firefox/58.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 58

Operating system: Android 7.0

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2024 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	308606.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	488311.3 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;