Run results for: append vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	51681.5 Ops/sec
append	929936.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<p id='bar'></p>

Script Preparation code:


var el = document.getElementById('bar');
var html = '<span class="red">Some text here</span> fdsfjdasfkjdasfkljdasflj';

Tests: