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

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 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Read nodeValue (incl. optional chaining)

16.6M/s

Read nodeValue

15.1M/s

Read textContent

9.4M/s

Read textContent (incl. optional chaining)

7.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Read nodeValue (incl. optional chaining)	16,555,946 Ops/sec
Read nodeValue	15,081,601 Ops/sec
Read textContent	9,351,426 Ops/sec
Read textContent (incl. optional chaining)	7,012,178 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="div">test</div>

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: