Run results for: replaceChild vs replaceChildren vs documentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/126.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

replaceChildren

310K/s

replaceChild

217K/s

append documentFragment

104K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	309,658 Ops/sec
replaceChild	216,594 Ops/sec
append documentFragment	103,805 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var elements = [document.createElement('div'), document.createElement('div')];
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
var container = document.getElementById('container');

elements.forEach(element => fragment.appendChild(element));
container.appendChild(fragment);

Tests:

replaceChild
var changeIndex = 1; elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); container.replaceChild(elements[changeIndex], container.children[changeIndex]);
replaceChildren
var changeIndex = 1; elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); container.replaceChildren(elements)
append documentFragment
var changeIndex = 1; var newChildren = document.createDocumentFragment(); elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); elements.forEach(element => newChildren.appendChild(element)); while(container.firstChild) { container.firstChild.remove(); } container.appendChild(newChildren)