Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:80.0) Gecko/80.0 Firefox/80.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 80

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	487451.2 Ops/sec
textContent	783184.9 Ops/sec
innerText	599086.4 Ops/sec
innerHTML	794692.4 Ops/sec

Website performance monitoring

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.createElement('a');

Tests:

createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';