Run results for: setAttribute vs type

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

type

5.5M/s

setAttribute

4.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ type	5,535,901 Ops/sec
setAttribute	4,725,000 Ops/sec

Tests:

type
const a = document.createElement('button'); a.type = "button"
setAttribute
const a = document.createElement('button'); a.setAttribute('type', "button");