Run results for: insertAdjacentHTML vs append

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SFive/95.0 Chrome/95.0.4638.54 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 95

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	465.5 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML	586.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test"></div>

Tests:

append
var newElement = document.createElement("div"); newElement.id = "testing" for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var newElementPart = document.createElement("div"); newElementPart.classList.add("testClass"); newElement.append(newElementPart); } document.getElementById("test").append(newElement);
insertAdjacentHTML
html = "<div id='testing'>" for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { html += "<div class='testClass'></div>"; } html += "</div>"; document.getElementById("test").insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", html);