Run results for: using getAttribute vs property to access an element's href

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.54 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 70

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
getAttribute	2.0 Ops/sec
property	0.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

hi
<a id="yes" href="/okay">go here!!!! jkkjkkjjj don't</a>

Tests:

getAttribute
const element = document.getElementById('yes'); let i = 1000; while (i--) { // here let attr = element.getAttribute('href'); console.log(attr); }
property
const element = document.getElementById('yes'); let i = 1000; while (i--) { // here 2 let attr = element.href; console.log(attr); }