Run results for: innerHTML vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; SCM-W09) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 EdgA/112.0.1722.59

Browser: Chrome 112

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	29868.6 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment	40736.9 Ops/sec

Tests:

innerHTML
const el = document.createElement('div'); el.innerHTML = ` <h1>Heading</h1> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <button>Button</button> `; document.documentElement.appendChild(el);
DocumentFragment
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); document.documentElement.appendChild(el);