Run results for: append vs appendChild + createTextNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

append

7K/s

appendChild + createTextNode

3K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	6,582 Ops/sec
appendChild + createTextNode	2,625 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container")

Tests:

append
container.append("text")
appendChild + createTextNode
container.appendChild(document.createTextNode("text"))