Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 months ago

createElement

1.4M/s

createContextualFragment

379K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	1,428,572 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	378,984 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = 'Hello'; return div.outerHTML;
createContextualFragment
const frag = document.createRange().createContextualFragment(`<div>Hello</div>`); const domNode = frag.firstElementChild; return domNode.outerHTML;