Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getAttribute

197K/s

dataset

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	196,966 Ops/sec
dataset	1,600 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" data-foo="foo_id"></div>

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.getAttribute("data-foo"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.dataset.foo; }