Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createElement

1K/s

createDocumentFragment

338/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	1,332 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	338 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var root = document.createElement("div"); document.body.appendChild(root); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); }
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); var root = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); } document.body.appendChild(frag);