Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs nodeValue - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	321316.9 Ops/sec
textContent	564206.4 Ops/sec
innerText	327247.1 Ops/sec
nodeValue	12336050.0 Ops/sec

Website performance monitoring

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
nodeValue
a.nodeValue = 'text';