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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:109.0) Gecko/113.0 Firefox/113.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 113

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 11 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	404583.2 Ops/sec
textContent	578593.9 Ops/sec
innerText	372856.1 Ops/sec
innerHTML	575287.0 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';