Benchmark: insertAdjacentHtml vs innerHTML - Replace

Script Preparation code:

const targetElem = document.createElement( 'DIV' );
targetElem.id = 'target';

targetElem.innerHTML = `
	<div>
		<span>Child 1</span>
	</div>
	<div>
		<span>Child 2</span>
	</div>
	<div>
		<span>Child 3</span>
	</div>
`;

document.body.appendChild( targetElem );

Tests:

innerHTML
document.getElementById( 'target' ).innerHTML = ` <div> <span>Child 4</span> </div> `;
insertAdjacentHTML
document.getElementById( 'target' ).insertAdjacentHTML( 'afterend', ` <div> <span>Child 4</span> </div> ` );

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
insertAdjacentHTML

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 11 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/136.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 136 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	594353.2 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	871428.6 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

insertAdjacentHtml vs innerHTML - Replace (version: 0)

insertAdjacentHtml vs innerHTML

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

insertAdjacentHTML

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A