Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SAMSUNG SM-G981N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/16.2 Chrome/92.0.4515.166 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 92

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	3.8 Ops/sec
cloneNode	9.6 Ops/sec
JQuery	2.0 Ops/sec
JQuery(cloneNode)	4.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }
JQuery
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push($('<div>')); if(n===100000) break; }
JQuery(cloneNode)
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push($(node.cloneNode(true))); if(n===100000) break; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode

JQuery

JQuery(cloneNode)