Run results for: replaceWith vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Browser: Firefox 120

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replaceWith	5782.4 Ops/sec
innerHTML	6209.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="image"></div>

Tests:

replaceWith
const image = document.createElement('div'); image.classList.add('image'); const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img); document.querySelector('.image').replaceWith(image);
innerHTML
const image = document.querySelector('.image'); image.innerHTML = ''; const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img);