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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.72 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1156684.0 Ops/sec
textContent	5015477.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1452992.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	410766.6 Ops/sec
nodeValue	6238864.0 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';