Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';
textContent
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.textContent = '';
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren()

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
removeChild
remove
innerText
textContent
replaceChildren

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 149 on Mac OS X 10.15

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remove

9.2M/s

removeChild

9.0M/s

textContent

6.6M/s

innerHTML

6.5M/s

innerText

6.0M/s

replaceChildren

4.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ remove	9,199,637 Ops/sec
removeChild	8,989,085 Ops/sec
textContent	6,574,528 Ops/sec
innerHTML	6,463,744 Ops/sec
innerText	6,038,152 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	4,159,947 Ops/sec

innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: `innerHTML vs removeChild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

removeChild

remove

innerText

textContent

replaceChildren

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs removeChild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

innerHTML

removeChild

remove

innerText

textContent

replaceChildren

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Comparing performance of: `innerHTML vs removeChild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren`