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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	2588825.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	723468.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	2882700.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText	2244639.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML	782823.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent	2366490.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText	2256558.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML	2059086.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent	2232659.0 Ops/sec
Cash .text	1522660.0 Ops/sec
Cash .html	600537.6 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	795048.6 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	497413.9 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	531115.3 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	384171.1 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"); 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");

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