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: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	6995784.5 Ops/sec
textContent	7018639.5 Ops/sec
innerText	7218508.5 Ops/sec
append	8958654.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2424137.5 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	2875250.0 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	6560777.5 Ops/sec
appendChild	7975077.5 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! 🥺'));