Run results for: innerHTML vs createElement

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/139.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 139

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

createElement

551K/s

innerHTML

428K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	551,374 Ops/sec
innerHTML	427,856 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
document.body.append( document.createElement("p"), document.createElement("p"), document.createElement("p"), document.createElement("p"), document.createElement("p") );
innerHTML
document.body.innerHTML = "12345";