Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

replaceChildren

2.4M/s

innerHTML

1.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	2,429,180 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1,282,338 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title">Title</td>
    <td id="url">URL</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

const title = document.getElementById('title');
const url = document.getElementById('url');

Tests:

innerHTML
title.innerHTML = "Edited Title"; url.innerHTML = "Edited URL";
replaceChildren
title.replaceChildren("Edited Title"); url.replaceChildren("Edited URL");