Run results for: jQuery 2.2.0 vs Vanilla JS SetText Speed Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.4.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Pure JS .innerText

6.6M/s

Pure JS .textContent

6.3M/s

Pure JS .innerHTML

5.2M/s

jQuery .html()

2.1M/s

jQuery .text()

2.0M/s

jQuery .find()

1.3M/s

jQuery .find().html()

1.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Pure JS .innerText	6,565,932 Ops/sec
Pure JS .textContent	6,265,722 Ops/sec
Pure JS .innerHTML	5,159,808 Ops/sec
jQuery .html()	2,100,714 Ops/sec
jQuery .text()	2,034,202 Ops/sec
jQuery .find()	1,334,962 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().html()	1,004,840 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Pure JS .innerText
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Pure JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Pure JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
jQuery .text()
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .html()
$("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .find()
$(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .find().html()
$(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");