Run results for: append vs fragment+appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	74428.9 Ops/sec
fragment + appendChild	58621.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="target"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var target = document.getElementById('target');

Tests:

append
var d = [] for(let i = 0; i < 5; i++) { d.push(document.createElement('p')) } target.append(...d)
fragment + appendChild
var d = new DocumentFragment for(let i = 0; i < 5; i++) { d.appendChild(document.createElement('p')) } target.appendChild(d)