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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Browser: Firefox 85

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1172652.0 Ops/sec
textContent	2455863.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1545025.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2391917.0 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';