Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Browser: Firefox 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

append

17K/s

appendChild

16K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	17,028 Ops/sec
appendChild	15,932 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: