Run results for: createElement vs innerHTML (3000)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; NEM-L51) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 92

Operating system: Android 7.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	49.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	57.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class='x'></div>

Tests:

createElement
let fragment = new DocumentFragment(); for (let i = 0; i < 3000; i++) { fragment.appendChild(document.createElement("div")); } document.querySelector(".x").append(fragment);
innerHTML
let fragment = ""; for (let i = 0; i < 3000; i++) { fragment += "<div></div>"; } document.querySelector(".x").innerHTML = fragment;