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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 140

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

append

9.0M/s

appendChild

8.0M/s

innerText

7.2M/s

textContent

7.0M/s

createTextNode

7.0M/s

replaceChildren

6.6M/s

insertAdjacentHTML

2.9M/s

innerHTML

2.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	8,958,654 Ops/sec
appendChild	7,975,078 Ops/sec
innerText	7,218,508 Ops/sec
textContent	7,018,640 Ops/sec
createTextNode	6,995,784 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	6,560,778 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	2,875,250 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2,424,138 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! 🥺'));