Run results for: textContent vs nodeValue vs data - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.textContent	343239.2 Ops/sec
node.textContent	1139858.6 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	2891312.8 Ops/sec
node.data	2856079.5 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();