Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren vs removechild (reverse) vs remove (reverse)

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()
remove reverse
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.lastChild.remove()
removeChild reverse
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
removeChild
remove
innerText
textContent
replaceChildren
remove reverse
removeChild reverse

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 145 on Windows

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remove reverse

37.2M/s

removeChild reverse

31.1M/s

remove

29.3M/s

removeChild

28.5M/s

replaceChildren

18.3M/s

innerHTML

13.9M/s

textContent

13.6M/s

innerText

7.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ remove reverse	37,156,396 Ops/sec
removeChild reverse	31,093,134 Ops/sec
remove	29,304,392 Ops/sec
removeChild	28,464,478 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	18,295,562 Ops/sec
innerHTML	13,930,163 Ops/sec
textContent	13,572,732 Ops/sec
innerText	7,759,172 Ops/sec

innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren vs removechild (reverse) vs remove (reverse) (version: 1)

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

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

innerHTML

removeChild

remove

innerText

textContent

replaceChildren

remove reverse

removeChild reverse

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren vs removechild (reverse) vs remove (reverse) (version: 1)

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

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

innerHTML

removeChild

remove

innerText

textContent

replaceChildren

remove reverse

removeChild reverse

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 vs remove reverse vs removeChild reverse`