Run results for: Modern dataset vs old .getAttribute() vs jQuery .data() vs jQuery .attr() 2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:103.0) Gecko/103.0 Firefox/103.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 103

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
dataset	421.2 Ops/sec
getAttribute	65235.4 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	197.3 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	133.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">kipr202 header</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
var element = document.getElementById("data"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var value = element.dataset.test; }
getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("data"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var value = element.getAttribute("test"); }
jQuery .data()
var element = $("#data"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var value = element.data("test"); }
jQuery .attr()
var element = $("#data"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var value = element.attr("data-test"); }

Run results for: Modern dataset vs old .getAttribute() vs jQuery .data() vs jQuery .attr() 2

dont let it get optimized away

dataset

getAttribute

jQuery .data()

jQuery .attr()