Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset (without explicit loop)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 132

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

getAttribute

8.3M/s

dataset

3.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	8,268,498 Ops/sec
dataset	3,704,225 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var foo = element.getAttribute("data-foo");
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var foo = element.dataset.foo;