Run results for: HTML insertion

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

Browser: Firefox 48

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQ append	989.5 Ops/sec
js append	1356.6 Ops/sec
jq append loop	113.9 Ops/sec
js append loop	4.2 Ops/sec
js array join	1312.4 Ops/sec
js insert	741.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement" style="display:none"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var js = document.getElementById('testElement');
var jq = $('#testElement');
var len = 500;

Tests:

jQ append
var html = ''; for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { html += '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'; } jq.html(html); jq.html('');
js append
var html = ''; for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { html += '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'; } js.innerHTML = html; js.innerHTML = '';
jq append loop
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { jq.append('<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'); } jq.html('');
js append loop
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { js.innerHTML += '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'; } js.innerHTML = '';
js array join
var html = []; for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { html.push('<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'); } js.innerHTML = html.join(''); js.innerHTML = '';
js insert
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { js.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<div>Test ' + i + '</div>'); } js.innerHTML = '';

Run results for: HTML insertion

compare between plain js and jQuery

jQ append

js append

jq append loop

js append loop

js array join

js insert