Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36 OPR/77.0.4054.277

Browser: Opera 77

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery attr	1284369.6 Ops/sec
setAttribute	1995899.6 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: