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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getAttribute

2.5M/s

dataset

2.3M/s

jQuery .attr()

19K/s

jQuery .data()

16K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	2,521,911 Ops/sec
dataset	2,257,444 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	18,752 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	15,895 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">kipr202 header</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() { document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test; }
getAttribute
window.onload = function() { document.querySelector("h3#data").getAttribute("test"); }
jQuery .data()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").data("test"); });
jQuery .attr()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").attr("data-test"); });