Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

createElement

1.8M/s

createContextualFragment

602K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	1,835,942 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	601,615 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = 'Hello'; return div.outerHTML;
createContextualFragment
const frag = document.createRange().createContextualFragment(`<div>Hello</div>`); const domNode = frag.firstElementChild; return domNode.outerHTML;