Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment 1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36 Edg/95.0.1020.53

Browser: Chrome 95

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	28.8 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	40.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

document.body.innerHTML = "";

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);