Run results for: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - SetText Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Browser: Firefox 75

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	664322.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	939589.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	888655.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	650293.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	929283.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	848195.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	380173.5 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	288921.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	419637.6 Ops/sec
Cash .text	1180542.6 Ops/sec
Cash .html	1146639.4 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	731583.6 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	709897.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	393176.7 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	329248.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"><script>
<script>jQuery.noConflict();</script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cash/7.0.3/cash.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Vanilla JS .innerText
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World"
Cash .text
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");
Cash .html
$("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .text()
jQuery("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .html()
jQuery("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .find() .text()
jQuery(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .find() .html()
jQuery(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");

Run results for: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - SetText Speed Test

Vanilla JS .innerText

Vanilla JS .innerHTML

Vanilla JS .textContent

Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText

Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML

Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent

Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText

Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML

Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent

Cash .text

Cash .html

jQuery .text()

jQuery .html()

jQuery .find() .text()

jQuery .find() .html()