Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild multiple elements

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

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

635K/s

append

521K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	635,476 Ops/sec
append	520,512 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph1 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph2 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph3 = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

append
container.append(paragraph,paragraph1,paragraph2,paragraph3);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph); container.appendChild(paragraph1); container.appendChild(paragraph2); container.appendChild(paragraph3);