Run results for: replaceWith vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHTML

155K/s

replaceWith

135K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHTML	155,403 Ops/sec
replaceWith	134,528 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="image"></div>

Tests:

replaceWith
const image = document.createElement('div'); image.classList.add('image'); const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img); document.querySelector('.image').replaceWith(image);
innerHTML
const image = document.querySelector('.image'); image.innerHTML = ''; const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img);