Run results for: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/120.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

1) innerHTML +=

5.3M/s

3) appendChild

4.0M/s

4) insertAdjacentElement

3.8M/s

2) insertAdjacentHTML

3.0M/s

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Script Preparation code:

 box1 = document.createElement("div");

 box2 = document.createElement("div");
 box2HTML = box2.innerHTML;

Tests: