Run results for: setAttribute vs src

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/130.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

style

7/s

setAttribute

7/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style	7 Ops/sec
setAttribute	7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<img id="foo"/>

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("src", "https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/2019/06/logo-cloudflare-dark-1.svg"); }
style
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.src = "https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/2019/06/logo-cloudflare-dark-1.svg"; }