Run results for: createElement vs innerHTML (3000)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	1076.2 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1770.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class='x'></div>

Tests:

createElement
let fragment = new DocumentFragment(); for (let i = 0; i < 3000; i++) { fragment.appendChild(document.createElement("div")); } document.querySelector(".x").append(fragment);
innerHTML
let fragment = ""; for (let i = 0; i < 3000; i++) { fragment += "<div></div>"; } document.querySelector(".x").innerHTML = fragment;