Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment 1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 97

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	389.5 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	844.9 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);