Run results for: Create element performance benchmark

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 92

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	133890.7 Ops/sec
createElement. classList, textContent, appendChild	166502.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class='benchmark'></div>

Tests:

innerHTML
let articleHTML = '<article class="bg-yellow-100"> <h1 class="bold">Hello World</h1><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Atque alias ullam eaque voluptas ab delectus reiciendis adipisci placeat, vero laborum illum dolorem quia odit? Cumque ratione vel saepe quas veniam. </p> </article>'; document.querySelector('.benchmark').innerHTML = articleHTML;
createElement. classList, textContent, appendChild
let article = document.createElement('article'); article.classList.add('bg-yellow-100'); let heading = document.createElement('h1'); heading.textContent = 'Hello World'; heading.classList.add('bold'); article.appendChild(heading); let paragraph = document.createElement('p'); paragraph.textContent = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Atque alias ullam eaque voluptas ab delectus reiciendis adipisci placeat, vero laborum illum dolorem quia odit? Cumque ratione vel saepe quas veniam.'; article.appendChild(paragraph); document.querySelector('.benchmark').appendChild(article);