Run results for: template vs documentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0

Browser: Firefox 116

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

createDocumentFragment

695K/s

createElement

131K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createDocumentFragment	695,396 Ops/sec
createElement	130,551 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const html = "<span class='eChat-Custom-group-member Right'>5 members</span>"

Tests:

createElement
const template = document.createElement("template"); template.innerHTML = html.toString().trim(); document.body.appendChild(template.content.firstChild);
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); frag.innerHtml = html.toString().trim(); document.body.appendChild(frag);