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

Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - SetText Speed Test (version: 15)

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"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World"
Cash .text
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");
Cash .html
$("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .text()
jQuery("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .html()
jQuery("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .find() .text()
jQuery(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .find() .html()
jQuery(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");

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: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/108.0.1462.54

Browser/OS: Chrome 108 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	799643.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	217774.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	2562021.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	667477.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	225253.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	1628098.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	707854.1 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	254256.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	220475.0 Ops/sec
Cash .text	570746.7 Ops/sec
Cash .html	224745.7 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	408341.3 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	206923.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	312293.7 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	184321.5 Ops/sec

Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - SetText Speed Test (version: 15)

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