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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS .innerText	813216.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .innerHTML	1314833.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS .textContent	2025408.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerText	628711.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .innerHTML	892380.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelector) .textContent	1215632.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerText	790588.3 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .innerHTML	773612.9 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS (querySelectorAll) .textContent	791504.1 Ops/sec
Cash .text	1253251.0 Ops/sec
Cash .html	897987.4 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	926213.3 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	816226.1 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .text()	443434.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .find() .html()	439426.8 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()