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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 88

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	261976.6 Ops/sec
textContent	1462707.0 Ops/sec
innerText	487647.1 Ops/sec
innerHTML	94559.4 Ops/sec
nodeValue	1706178.0 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';