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

append

6.7M/s

textContent

5.7M/s

innerHTML

5.1M/s

appendChild

4.9M/s

replaceChildren

4.4M/s

createTextNode

3.5M/s

innerText

2.8M/s

insertAdjacentHTML

1.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	6,739,562 Ops/sec
textContent	5,691,569 Ops/sec
innerHTML	5,081,646 Ops/sec
appendChild	4,868,496 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	4,413,955 Ops/sec
createTextNode	3,503,840 Ops/sec
innerText	2,835,452 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	1,806,852 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! 🥺'));