Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SAMSUNG SM-A530F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/16.2 Chrome/92.0.4515.166 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 92

Operating system: Android 8.0.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	299453.0 Ops/sec
textContent	1020808.0 Ops/sec
innerText	401938.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	54861.0 Ops/sec

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';