Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 93

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	212.6 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	451.7 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var root = document.createElement("div"); document.body.appendChild(root); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); }
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); var root = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); } document.body.appendChild(frag);