Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

replaceChildren

2.4M/s

innerHTML

1.7M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	2,448,801 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1,656,720 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title">Title</td>
    <td id="url">URL</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

const title = document.getElementById('title');
const url = document.getElementById('url');

Tests:

innerHTML
title.innerHTML = "Edited Title"; url.innerHTML = "Edited URL";
replaceChildren
title.replaceChildren("Edited Title"); url.replaceChildren("Edited URL");