Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

append

16K/s

appendChild

15K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	15,700 Ops/sec
appendChild	14,958 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: