Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0

Browser: Firefox 142

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

append

18K/s

appendChild

15K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	18,478 Ops/sec
appendChild	15,226 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: