Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 15; Pixel 9 Build/BP1A.250305.020.A2; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/131.0.6778.104 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

textContent

14.7M/s

innerText

4.1M/s

createTextNode

3.8M/s

innerHTML

1.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ textContent	14,718,284 Ops/sec
innerText	4,052,586 Ops/sec
createTextNode	3,750,356 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1,292,672 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';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';