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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	667524.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	926582.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	935509.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	622363.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	841707.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	859684.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	377086.5 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	332929.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	490296.9 Ops/sec
Cash .text	1008607.7 Ops/sec
Cash .html	1002084.9 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	648870.7 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	624715.9 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	336074.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	326195.7 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()