Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

9.5M/s

jQuery attr

6.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	9,469,111 Ops/sec
jQuery attr	6,613,042 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el" class="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var $el = $("#el");
var el = $el.get(0);

Tests: