Run results for: Test (innerHTML, replaceChildren, remove, removeChild)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

removeChild

25.4M/s

remove

25.3M/s

replaceChildren

7.2M/s

innerHTML

7.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ removeChild	25,380,414 Ops/sec
remove	25,336,824 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	7,248,584 Ops/sec
innerHTML	7,039,120 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="parent"></div>

Script Preparation code:

const node = document.getElementById('parent');
const child = document.createElement('div')
child.textContent = 'some text'

for(var i = 0; i < 5000; i++) node.appendChild(child);

Tests:

innerHTML
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.innerHTML = '';
replaceChildren
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.replaceChildren();
remove
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
removeChild
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)