Run results for: id vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
id	4752064.5 Ops/sec
setAttribute	2873146.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var ELEMENT = document.createElement('div');

AخA
 
var ELEMENT = document.createElement('div');

Tests:

id
ELEMENT.id = 'testID';
ELEMENT.id = 'testID';
setAttribute
ELEMENT.setAttribute('id', 'testID');
ELEMENT.setAttribute('id', 'testID');