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Run results for:
createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
textContent
13.2M/s
append
5.1M/s
innerText
3.7M/s
createTextNode
2.6M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
textContent
13,175,816 Ops/sec
append
5,066,660 Ops/sec
innerText
3,655,166 Ops/sec
createTextNode
2,560,400 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var a = document.createElement('a');
Tests:
createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
append
a.append('text');