Run results for: Set textContent vs append

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/135.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

append

6.8M/s

textContent

5.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	6,752,924 Ops/sec
textContent	5,922,532 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: