Benchmark: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText Speed Test

Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText Speed Test (version: 20)

Comparing performance of: Vanilla JS .innerText vs Vanilla JS .innerHTML vs Vanilla JS .textContent vs Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText vs Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML vs Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent vs Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText vs Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML vs Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent vs Cash .text vs Cash .html vs jQuery .text() vs jQuery .html() vs jQuery .find() .text() vs jQuery .find() .html()

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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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();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
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()

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 9 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 106 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	2403249.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	6052509.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	6097351.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText	1848597.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML	3653835.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent	3671761.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText	1146966.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML	1295210.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent	1370493.0 Ops/sec
Cash .text	5085200.0 Ops/sec
Cash .html	3310899.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	2858575.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	2742345.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	1189871.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	1190931.0 Ops/sec

Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText Speed Test (version: 20)

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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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()

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A