Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

7.0M/s

append

6.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	6,952,616 Ops/sec
append	5,984,926 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: