Run results for: Imperative DOM vs innerHTML vs <template>

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

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Imperative DOM

841K/s

589K/s

innerHTML

189/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<template id="template">
    <div>
        <p class="font-bold">Hello!</p>
    </div>
</template>
<output id="output"></output>

Script Preparation code:

output.replaceChildren();

Tests:

innerHTML
output.innerHTML += ` <div> <p class="font-bold">Hello!</p> </div>`;
Imperative DOM
const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('p'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello!'; div.appendChild(p); output.appendChild(div);
<template>
output.appendChild(template.content.cloneNode(true));