Run results for: setAttribute vs src

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

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

23/s

style

22/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	23 Ops/sec
style	22 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"; }