Run results for: jQuery append vs html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 92

Operating system: Android 7.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery append	1459.5 Ops/sec
jQuery html	3150.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div id="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

$placeholder = $('#test')

Tests:

jQuery append
$placeholder.append('<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="design_b02239b31be14dd2b7482e8d20cbef4a" class="thumbnail design-thumbnail thumbImg blazy design-landscape ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle"><span class="handle"></span></a>')
jQuery html
$placeholder.html('<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="design_b02239b31be14dd2b7482e8d20cbef4a" class="thumbnail design-thumbnail thumbImg blazy design-landscape ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle"><span class="handle"></span></a>')