Run results for: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement add attribute x100 fix

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/137.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

appendChild

5K/s

insertAdjacentHTML

4K/s

insertAdjacentElement

4K/s

innerHTML

3/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	5,420 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	4,420 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement	4,039 Ops/sec
innerHTML	3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:


box1 = document.createElement("div");

box2 = document.createElement("div");
box2.src = "https://google.com";
box2.setAttribute('style', 'position:absolute;display:block;width:300px;hright:300px;border:2px solid blue');
box2.textContent = "X";

Tests:

innerHTML
for (var i=0; i<100;i++){ box1.innerHTML += box2.outerHTML; }
insertAdjacentHTML
for (var i=0; i<100;i++){ box1.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', box2.outerHTML); }
appendChild
for (var i=0; i<100;i++){ let El = document.createElement("div"); El.src="https://google.com"; El.setAttribute('style','position:absolute;display:block;width:300px;hright:300px;border:2px solid blue'); El.textContent = "X"; box1.appendChild(El); }
insertAdjacentElement
for (var i=0; i<100;i++){ let El = document.createElement("div"); El.src = "https://google.com"; El.setAttribute('style', 'position:absolute;display:block;width:300px;hright:300px;border:2px solid blue'); El.textContent = "X"; box1.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', El); }