Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Browser: Firefox 146

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

append

25K/s

appendChild

17K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	24,730 Ops/sec
appendChild	17,439 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: