Run results for: Compare AppendTo and html() function

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
appendTo	0.6 Ops/sec
html	4.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
<div class="myTarget"></div>

Tests:

appendTo
var myTarget = $('.myTarget'); for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { var abc = $('<div class="abc' + i +'">ABCDEFGH' + i +'</div>'); abc.appendTo(myTarget); }
html
var myTarget = $('.myTarget'); var str = ""; for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { var abc = $('<div class="abc' + i +'">ABCDEFGH' + i +'</div>'); str.concat(abc[0].outterHTML); } myTarget[0].innerHTML = str;