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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Browser: Firefox 90

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	610654.6 Ops/sec
textContent	1252666.0 Ops/sec
innerText	851404.4 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1274184.0 Ops/sec
nodeValue	25170350.0 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';