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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Fedora

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	214232.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	89398.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	1708720.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	178524.5 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	83688.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	1100684.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	600568.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	633147.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	632682.0 Ops/sec
Cash .text	869956.8 Ops/sec
Cash .html	78362.5 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	100138.5 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	64723.9 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	74485.8 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	52930.6 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()