Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	3272515.5 Ops/sec
textContent	3048061.0 Ops/sec
innerText	3396683.2 Ops/sec
append	4347149.0 Ops/sec
new text	3050116.8 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';
append
a.append('text');
new text
a.appendChild(new Text('text'));