Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getAttribute

196K/s

dataset

906/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	195,950 Ops/sec
dataset	906 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; }