Run results for: replaceChild vs replaceChildren vs documentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

replaceChild

2.7M/s

replaceChildren

2.5M/s

append documentFragment

1.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChild	2,656,624 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	2,517,611 Ops/sec
append documentFragment	1,279,556 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)