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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getAttribute

4.5M/s

dataset

2.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	4,535,888 Ops/sec
dataset	2,634,834 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;