Run results for: dataset vs getAttribute() vs jQuery.data() vs jQuery.attr()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 16_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/115.0.5790.130 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 115

Operating system: iOS 16.5

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
dataset	6150166.0 Ops/sec
getAttribute	4817691.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	95000.7 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	96155.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">Some test content</h3>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-bLT0Qm9VnAYZDflyKcBaQ2gg0hSYNQrJ8RilYldYQ1FxQYoCLtUjuuRuZo+fjqhx/qtq/1itJ0C2ejDxltZVFg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Tests:

dataset
window.onload = function() { var test = document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test; document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test = test+"1"; }
getAttribute
window.onload = function() { var test = document.querySelector("h3#data").getAttribute("test"); document.querySelector("h3#data").setAttribute("test", test+"1"); }
jQuery .data()
$(document).ready(function() { var $h3 = $("h3#data"); var test = $h3.data("test"); $h3.data("test", test+"1"); });
jQuery .attr()
$(document).ready(function() { var $h3 = $("h3#data"); var test = $h3.attr("data-test"); $h3.attr("data-test", test+"1"); });

Run results for: dataset vs getAttribute() vs jQuery.data() vs jQuery.attr()

dataset

getAttribute

jQuery .data()

jQuery .attr()