Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren to empty an element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHTML

6.6M/s

replaceChildren

4.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHTML	6,614,287 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	4,820,695 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title"><span>Some text</span></td>
    <td id="url"><span>Some other text</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: