Run results for: Reading textContent vs. nodeValue (incl. optional chaining)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Read nodeValue (incl. optional chaining)

109.1M/s

Read textContent (incl. optional chaining)

108.7M/s

Read textContent

0/s

Read nodeValue

0/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Read nodeValue (incl. optional chaining)	109,070,080 Ops/sec
Read textContent (incl. optional chaining)	108,662,648 Ops/sec
Read textContent	0 Ops/sec
Read nodeValue	0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

Reading textContent vs. nodeValue

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.getElementById('div');

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