Run results for: setAttribute vs classList.add (attribute adding)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Browser: Firefox 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

classList.add

8.1M/s

setAttribute

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ classList.add	8,051,140 Ops/sec
setAttribute	2,313 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test" class="first">Testing</div>

Script Preparation code:

var el = document.getElementById('test');

Tests: