Run results for: element.getAttribute("name") vs element.attributes.name.value

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.getAttribute("name")	2474907.0 Ops/sec
element.attributes.name.value	1870511.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <div id="test" someattr="val"></div>
</div>

Tests:

element.getAttribute("name")
!!(document.getElementById("test").getAttribute("someattr"))
element.attributes.name.value
!!(document.getElementById("test").attributes.someattr.value)