Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getAttribute

2K/s

dataset

725/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	1,663 Ops/sec
dataset	725 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; }