Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SM-G998W) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.58 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 99

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery attr	1257686.4 Ops/sec
setAttribute	1756471.5 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: