Run results for: replaceWith vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Browser: Firefox 90

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replaceWith	2114.7 Ops/sec
innerHTML	3541.6 Ops/sec

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);