Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs nodeValue vs replaceChildren vs appendChild - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

Browser: Firefox 113

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	22890.2 Ops/sec
textContent	1228683.8 Ops/sec
innerText	514170.0 Ops/sec
append	77981.5 Ops/sec
innerHTML	74936.3 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	59459.4 Ops/sec
nodeValue	23492054.0 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	75848.1 Ops/sec
appendChild	26709.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var span = document.createElement('span');

Tests:

createTextNode
span.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hello, World! 🥺'));
textContent
span.textContent = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
innerText
span.innerText = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
append
span.append('Hello, World! 🥺');
innerHTML
span.innerHTML = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
insertAdjacentHTML
span.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", 'Hello, World! 🥺');
nodeValue
span.nodeValue = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
replaceChildren
span.replaceChildren('Hello, World! 🥺');
appendChild
span.appendChild(new Text('Hello, World! 🥺'));