Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 142

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

append

805K/s

appendChild

562K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	804,961 Ops/sec
appendChild	562,281 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: