Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Chrome OS 14541.0.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

2.6M/s

append

1.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	2,600,281 Ops/sec
append	1,920,122 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: