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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Windows 8

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	693151.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	1007165.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	1492574.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText	518498.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML	770397.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent	1064174.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText	669987.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML	670951.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent	679240.4 Ops/sec
Cash .text	953747.9 Ops/sec
Cash .html	761382.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	717886.4 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	0.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	428859.5 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	445858.7 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"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Cash .text
var text = $("#foo").text();
Cash .html
var text = $("#foo").html();
jQuery .text()
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery .html()
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
jQuery .find() .text()
var text = jQuery(document).find("#foo").text();
jQuery .find() .html()
var text = jQuery(document).find("#foo").html();

Run results for: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText 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()