perf innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent (version: 1)

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Comparing performance of: innerText vs innerHtml vs textContent

Created: one year ago by: Guest
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Historical Performance Data aggregated from 6 community runs

Desktop Results:
Firefox 6 runs
innerHtml
9K/s
textContent
298/s
innerText
247/s

Fastest: innerHtml (35.7x faster)

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  • ✓ innerHtml: 8,804 ops/sec
  • • textContent: 298 ops/sec
  • • innerText: 247 ops/sec

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

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Previous results
  • Test case name Result
    innerText
    innerHtml
    textContent

    Fastest: N/A

    Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:
Run details: (Test run date: 8 months ago)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0
Firefox 145 on Windows
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innerHtml
6K/s
textContent
219/s
innerText
189/s
View exact numbers
Test name Executions per second
✓ innerHtml 6,274 Ops/sec
textContent 219 Ops/sec
innerText 189 Ops/sec

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