Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36
Chrome 89
Mac OS X 11.2.2
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
template 70695.8 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment 114255.0 Ops/sec
Tests:
  • template

    x
     
    const tpl = document.createElement('template');
    tpl.innerHTML = `
    <div>
        <h1>Heading</h1>
        <p>Paragraph 1</p>
        <p>Paragraph 2</p>
        <button>Button</button>
    </div>
    `;
    const el = tpl.content.firstElementChild
    document.documentElement.appendChild(el.cloneNode());
  • DocumentFragment

     
    const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
    const el = document.createElement('div');
    const heading = document.createElement('h1');
    const para1 = document.createElement('p');
    const para2 = document.createElement('p');
    const button = document.createElement('button');
    heading.innerText = 'Heading';
    para1.innerText = 'Paragraph 1';
    para2.innerText = 'Paragraph 2';
    button.innerText = 'Button';
    el.appendChild(heading);
    el.appendChild(para1);
    el.appendChild(para2);
    el.appendChild(button);
    fragment.appendChild(el);
    document.documentElement.appendChild(fragment);