Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser: Firefox 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

4.2M/s

append

3.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	4,178,724 Ops/sec
append	3,915,549 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: