Run results for: getAttribute vs attributes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/141.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
getAttribute	14961.9 Ops/sec
attributes	4890.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" data-episode="000000000"></div>

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.getAttribute("data-episode"); }
attributes
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.attributes["data-episode"].value; }