Run results for: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SAMSUNG SM-A105FN/A105FNXXU6CUH3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/16.0 Chrome/92.0.4515.166 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 92

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className	1031.5 Ops/sec
setAttribute	511.3 Ops/sec
classList	672.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); }