Run results for: hasAttribute vs. getAttribute vs. classList.contains

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

hasAttribute single

12.0M/s

getAttribute single

11.2M/s

classList single

10.9M/s

classList

10.8M/s

getAttribute

10.7M/s

hasAttribute

10.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ hasAttribute single	11,962,100 Ops/sec
getAttribute single	11,229,197 Ops/sec
classList single	10,852,555 Ops/sec
classList	10,797,338 Ops/sec
getAttribute	10,740,647 Ops/sec
hasAttribute	10,231,853 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" class="foo bar buz ignore" style="display:block" width="500" height="600" title="TEST" is-ignore="true" ignore></div>
<div id="bar" ignore></div>
<div id="buz" is-ignore="true"></div>
<div id="foobar" class="foo ignore"></div>

Tests:

hasAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var isIgnored = element.hasAttribute('ignore');
getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var isIgnored = element.getAttribute('is-ignore') === "true";
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var isIgnored = element.classList.contains('ignore');
hasAttribute single
var element = document.getElementById("bar"); var isIgnored = element.hasAttributes('ignore');
getAttribute single
var element = document.getElementById("buz"); var isIgnored = element.getAttribute('is-ignore') === "true";
classList single
var element = document.getElementById("foobar"); var isIgnored = element.classList.contains('ignore');