Run results for: textContent vs replaceChildren

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

textContent

11.1M/s

replaceChildren

2.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ textContent	11,077,623 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	1,980,879 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title">Title</td>
    <td id="url">URL</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

const title = document.getElementById('title');
const url = document.getElementById('url');

Tests:

textContent
title.textContent = "Edited Title"; url.textContent = "Edited URL";
replaceChildren
title.replaceChildren("Edited Title"); url.replaceChildren("Edited URL");