Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	652014.8 Ops/sec
textContent	1177320.0 Ops/sec
innerText	687323.9 Ops/sec
append	1255781.6 Ops/sec
new text	896564.6 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'));