Run results for: jQuery data VS jQuery attr data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

jQuery + data

167K/s

jQuery + attr data

142K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ jQuery + data	167,024 Ops/sec
jQuery + attr data	141,557 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.0.slim.min.js"></script>
<div class="flag"></div>

Tests:

jQuery + data
var flag = $('.flag'); flag.data('flag','iran'); console.log( flag.data('flag') );
jQuery + attr data
var flag = $('.flag'); flag.attr('data-flag','iran'); console.log( flag.attr('data-flag') );