Benchmark: DOMParser vs. createElement

HTML Preparation code:

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Script Preparation code:

/*your preparation JavaScript code goes here
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async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
    // This function is optional, feel free to remove it.
    // await someThing();
}

Tests:

DOMParser
const html = "<p></p>" const parser = new DOMParser(); const virtualDom = parser.parseFromString(html, 'text/html'); return virtualDom.body.innerText === ''
createElement
const html = "<p></p>" const el = document.createElement('div'); el.innerHTML = html; return el.innerText.trim() === '';

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
DOMParser
createElement

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 YaBrowser/25.10.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Yandex Browser 25 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
DOMParser	312746.5 Ops/sec
createElement	2074921.4 Ops/sec

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DOMParser

createElement

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A