Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

append

30K/s

appendChild

17K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	30,328 Ops/sec
appendChild	16,504 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: