Benchmark: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs nodeValue vs replaceChildren vs appendChild - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var span = document.createElement('span');

Tests:

createTextNode
span.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hello, World! 🥺'));
textContent
span.textContent = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
innerText
span.innerText = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
append
span.append('Hello, World! 🥺');
innerHTML
span.innerHTML = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
insertAdjacentHTML
span.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", 'Hello, World! 🥺');
nodeValue
span.nodeValue = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
replaceChildren
span.replaceChildren('Hello, World! 🥺');
appendChild
span.appendChild(new Text('Hello, World! 🥺'));

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
createTextNode
textContent
innerText
append
innerHTML
insertAdjacentHTML
nodeValue
replaceChildren
appendChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 114 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1885632.0 Ops/sec
textContent	8637319.0 Ops/sec
innerText	2656928.0 Ops/sec
append	3772980.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	811042.3 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	883924.5 Ops/sec
nodeValue	15813030.0 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	2676561.0 Ops/sec
appendChild	1864056.0 Ops/sec