Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

3.7M/s

append

3.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	3,733,478 Ops/sec
append	3,340,258 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: