Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; arm_64; Android 14; 22071219CG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.41 YaBrowser/24.7.6.41.00 SA/3 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 24

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

textContent

3.2M/s

innerText

1.3M/s

createTextNode

952K/s

innerHTML

613K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ textContent	3,224,327 Ops/sec
innerText	1,273,591 Ops/sec
createTextNode	952,495 Ops/sec
innerHTML	613,317 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';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';