Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; ONEPLUS A6000) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 91

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	252.2 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	306.8 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var root = document.createElement("div"); document.body.appendChild(root); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); }
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); var root = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); } document.body.appendChild(frag);