Benchmark: replaceWith vs innerHTML

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="image"></div>

Tests:

replaceWith
const image = document.createElement('div'); image.classList.add('image'); const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img); document.querySelector('.image').replaceWith(image);
innerHTML
const image = document.querySelector('.image'); image.innerHTML = ''; const img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', 'http://www.google.com'); image.appendChild(img);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
replaceWith
innerHTML

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 25 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
replaceWith	211612.2 Ops/sec
innerHTML	286405.9 Ops/sec

replaceWith vs innerHTML (version: 0)