Run results for: dataset vs getAttribute() vs jQuery.data() vs jQuery.attr()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

dataset

1.2M/s

getAttribute

1.1M/s

jQuery .data()

38K/s

jQuery .attr()

31K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ dataset	1,207,225 Ops/sec
getAttribute	1,055,182 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	38,457 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	31,455 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">Some test content</h3>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-bLT0Qm9VnAYZDflyKcBaQ2gg0hSYNQrJ8RilYldYQ1FxQYoCLtUjuuRuZo+fjqhx/qtq/1itJ0C2ejDxltZVFg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Tests:

dataset
window.onload = function() { var test = document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test; document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test = test+"1"; }
getAttribute
window.onload = function() { var test = document.querySelector("h3#data").getAttribute("test"); document.querySelector("h3#data").setAttribute("test", test+"1"); }
jQuery .data()
$(document).ready(function() { var $h3 = $("h3#data"); var test = $h3.data("test"); $h3.data("test", test+"1"); });
jQuery .attr()
$(document).ready(function() { var $h3 = $("h3#data"); var test = $h3.attr("data-test"); $h3.attr("data-test", test+"1"); });