Run results for: textContent vs nodeValue vs data vs innerText - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.textContent	1312618.8 Ops/sec
node.textContent	2031445.1 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	2118952.5 Ops/sec
node.data	2082874.6 Ops/sec
innerText	900923.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el"> </div>

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.querySelector('#el');

Tests:

element.textContent
a.textContent = Math.random();
node.textContent
a.firstChild.textContent = Math.random();
node.nodeValue
a.firstChild.nodeValue = Math.random();
node.data
a.firstChild.data = Math.random();
innerText
a.innerText = Math.random();