Run results for: Compare method createElement vs string template using insertAdjacentHtml

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

template string

864K/s

createElement

573K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ template string	863,799 Ops/sec
createElement	572,999 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div class="unique">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var div = document.getElementById('testdiv');

Tests:

createElement
var newDiv = document.createElement('div'); newDiv.classList.add('unique'); newDiv.innerText = 'test'; div.innerHTML = newDiv;
template string
var newDiv = `<div class="unique">test</div>`; div.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend",newDiv)