Run results for: replaceWith vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14816.64.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Chrome OS 14816.64.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
replaceWith	14903.6 Ops/sec
innerHTML	20547.6 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);