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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 83

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	935790.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	253988.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	3078391.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	811549.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	238735.6 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	1917351.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	1011665.6 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	1016497.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	1011046.2 Ops/sec
Cash .text	1643021.0 Ops/sec
Cash .html	219227.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	537954.9 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	184278.4 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	350954.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	161816.5 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()