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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:108.0) Gecko/108.0 Firefox/108.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 108

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	534069.9 Ops/sec
textContent	973726.9 Ops/sec
innerText	603319.8 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1059604.0 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';