Run results for: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

1) innerHTML +=

4.5M/s

3) appendChild

3.5M/s

4) insertAdjacentElement

3.2M/s

2) insertAdjacentHTML

2.7M/s

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Script Preparation code:

 box1 = document.createElement("div");

 box2 = document.createElement("div");
 box2HTML = box2.innerHTML;

Tests: