Run results for: getAttribute vs attributes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getAttribute

537K/s

attributes

4K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	537,345 Ops/sec
attributes	4,225 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" data-episode="000000000"></div>

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.getAttribute("data-episode"); }
attributes
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.attributes["data-episode"].value; }