Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

getAttribute

258K/s

dataset

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	257,837 Ops/sec
dataset	2,318 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; }