Run results for: textContent vs nodeValue vs data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Infinix X6511B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.5938.154 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/78.5.4143.75924

Browser: Opera Mobile 78

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

node.data

85K/s

node.nodeValue

84K/s

node.textContent

83K/s

element.textContent

70K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ node.data	84,662 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	84,166 Ops/sec
node.textContent	82,530 Ops/sec
element.textContent	69,895 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el"> </div>

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.querySelector('#el');

Tests:

element.textContent
a.textContent = Math.random();
node.textContent
a.firstChild.textContent = Math.random();
node.nodeValue
a.firstChild.nodeValue = Math.random();
node.data
a.firstChild.data = Math.random();