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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_0_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.0.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	821199.3 Ops/sec
textContent	4717632.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1132065.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	262769.2 Ops/sec
nodeValue	6013169.0 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';