Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTMLvs replaceChildren vs appendChild - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	3503840.5 Ops/sec
textContent	5691569.0 Ops/sec
innerText	2835451.5 Ops/sec
append	6739562.5 Ops/sec
innerHTML	5081645.5 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	1806851.8 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	4413955.0 Ops/sec
appendChild	4868496.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var span = document.createElement('span');

Tests:

createTextNode
span.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hello, World! 🥺'));
textContent
span.textContent = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
innerText
span.innerText = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
append
span.append('Hello, World! 🥺');
innerHTML
span.innerHTML = 'Hello, World! 🥺';
insertAdjacentHTML
span.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", 'Hello, World! 🥺');
replaceChildren
span.replaceChildren('Hello, World! 🥺');
appendChild
span.appendChild(new Text('Hello, World! 🥺'));