Benchmark: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTMLvs 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! 🥺');
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
replaceChildren
appendChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SM-N975F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 112 on Android

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Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	747638.2 Ops/sec
textContent	3236471.0 Ops/sec
innerText	905634.4 Ops/sec
append	1315453.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	101070.6 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	127221.7 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	1107429.0 Ops/sec
appendChild	652476.3 Ops/sec