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Run results for:
createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 131
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
textContent
3.9M/s
append
1.8M/s
innerText
1.4M/s
createTextNode
1.3M/s
new text
951K/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
textContent
3,862,890 Ops/sec
append
1,750,264 Ops/sec
innerText
1,391,392 Ops/sec
createTextNode
1,291,490 Ops/sec
new text
951,266 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');
new text
a.appendChild(new Text('text'));