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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:97.0) Gecko/97.0 Firefox/97.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 97

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	771078.0 Ops/sec
textContent	1267542.0 Ops/sec
innerText	860833.2 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1260902.0 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';