Run results for: createElement vs innerHTML(template)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.4.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createElement

17/s

innerHTML

8/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	17 Ops/sec
innerHTML	8 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push( document.createElement('div') .appendChild( Object.assign(document.createElement('p'), { className: 'font-bold', textContent: 'Hello!' }) ) ); if(n===100000) break; }
innerHTML
const list = []; let n = 0; const template = document.createElement('template'); while(true) { n++; template.innerHTML = '<div><p class="font-bold">Hello!</p></div>'; list.push(template.content.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }