Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

appendChild

20K/s

append

12K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	19,895 Ops/sec
append	12,395 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: