Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren

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

Browser: Chrome 139

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

replaceChildren

1.9M/s

innerHTML

177K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	1,883,979 Ops/sec
innerHTML	177,071 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title">Title</td>
    <td id="url">URL</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

const title = document.getElementById('title');
const url = document.getElementById('url');

Tests:

innerHTML
title.innerHTML = "Edited Title"; url.innerHTML = "Edited URL";
replaceChildren
title.replaceChildren("Edited Title"); url.replaceChildren("Edited URL");