Run results for: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; ONEPLUS A5000 Build/NMF26X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.81 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 61

Operating system: Android 7.1.1

Device Platform: ONEPLUS A5000

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className	1116.7 Ops/sec
setAttribute	993.0 Ops/sec
classList	922.9 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"); }