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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/134.0.6998.99 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 134

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
getAttribute	24187124.0 Ops/sec
dataset	7354060.0 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;

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

Compare setAttribute to dataset

getAttribute

dataset