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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

Browser: Firefox 106

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1531258.0 Ops/sec
textContent	2413510.0 Ops/sec
innerText	2204588.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	3709570.0 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';