Run results for: data-attribute: jQuery data vs Zepto data vs getAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 70

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla getAttribute	3685431.5 Ops/sec
jQuery data	929841.7 Ops/sec
Zepto data	851813.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js"></script>

<div id="ele" data-data-attribute="fooBAR"></div>

Script Preparation code:

ele = document.getElementById('ele');
$ele = jQuery(ele);
zEle = Zepto(ele);

Tests:

Vanilla getAttribute
ele.getAttribute('data-data-attribute');
jQuery data
$ele.data('data-attribute');
Zepto data
zEle.data('data-attribute');

Run results for: data-attribute: jQuery data vs Zepto data vs getAttribute

Vanilla getAttribute

jQuery data

Zepto data