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; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Browser: Firefox 151

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 14 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	2371033.5 Ops/sec
textContent	3381388.0 Ops/sec
innerText	2230741.5 Ops/sec
append	4046191.5 Ops/sec
new text	2954412.8 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'));