Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getAttribute

44K/s

dataset

285/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	44,185 Ops/sec
dataset	285 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" data-foo="foo_id"></div>

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.getAttribute("data-foo"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.dataset.foo; }