Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/132.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

2.8M/s

jQuery attr

1.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	2,842,782 Ops/sec
jQuery attr	1,000,898 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: