Run results for: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.75 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 62

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Pure JS .innerText	542565.4 Ops/sec
Pure JS .innerHTML	1263221.0 Ops/sec
Pure JS .textContent	2510401.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	584598.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	413613.8 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().text()	345929.6 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().html()	285577.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"><script>
<script>jQuery.noConflict();</script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cash/7.0.3/cash.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Vanilla JS .innerText
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent
var el = document.querySelector("#foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.innerText;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.innerHTML;
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent
var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo"); var text = el.textContent;
Cash .text
var text = $("#foo").text();
Cash .html
var text = $("#foo").html();
jQuery .text()
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery .html()
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
jQuery .find() .text()
var text = jQuery(document).find("#foo").text();
jQuery .find() .html()
var text = jQuery(document).find("#foo").html();

Run results for: Vanilla JS, Cash and jQuery - GetText Speed Test

Vanilla JS .innerText

Vanilla JS .innerHTML

Vanilla JS .textContent

Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText

Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML

Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent

Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText

Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML

Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent

Cash .text

Cash .html

jQuery .text()

jQuery .html()

jQuery .find() .text()

jQuery .find() .html()