Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/142.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 142

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

appendChild

1.2M/s

append

982K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	1,238,682 Ops/sec
append	981,555 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: