Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0

Browser: Firefox 145

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

16.4M/s

jQuery attr

5.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	16,377,055 Ops/sec
jQuery attr	5,902,395 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el" class="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var $el = $("#el");
var el = $el.get(0);

Tests: