Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

appendChild

2.4M/s

append

2.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	2,399,904 Ops/sec
append	2,038,036 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: