innerText vs innerHTML vs textContent (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: innerText vs innerHTML vs textContent

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest
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Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 5 runs
textContent
234K/s
innerText
225K/s
innerHTML
161K/s

Fastest: textContent (1.5x faster)

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  • ✓ textContent: 234,342 ops/sec
  • • innerText: 224,654 ops/sec
  • • innerHTML: 161,378 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results
  • Test case name Result
    innerText
    innerHTML
    textContent

    Fastest: N/A

    Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:
Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 142 on Linux
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innerHTML
1.3M/s
innerText
1.2M/s
textContent
431K/s
View exact numbers
Test name Executions per second
✓ innerHTML 1,265,011 Ops/sec
innerText 1,203,725 Ops/sec
textContent 431,406 Ops/sec

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