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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Browser: Firefox 74

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1243185.0 Ops/sec
textContent	2275606.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1652651.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2342895.0 Ops/sec
nodeValue	44933840.0 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';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';
nodeValue
a.nodeValue = 'text';