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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1770.8 Ops/sec
textContent	2591859.0 Ops/sec
innerText	2826886.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	811249.5 Ops/sec
nodeValue	8117339.0 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';