Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

appendChild

12.1M/s

append

8.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	12,135,890 Ops/sec
append	8,775,259 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");

Tests: