Run results for: using getAttribute vs property to access an element's href

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox 128

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

getAttribute

173/s

property

140/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	173 Ops/sec
property	140 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

hi
<a id="yes" href="/okay">go here!!!! jkkjkkjjj don't</a>

Tests:

getAttribute
const element = document.getElementById('yes'); let i = 1000; while (i--) { // here let attr = element.getAttribute('href'); console.log(attr); }
property
const element = document.getElementById('yes'); let i = 1000; while (i--) { // here 2 let attr = element.href; console.log(attr); }