Benchmark: innerHTML vs DocumentFragment

Tests:

innerHTML
const el = document.createElement('div'); el.innerHTML = ` <h1>Heading</h1> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <button>Button</button> `; document.documentElement.appendChild(el);
DocumentFragment
const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(); const el = document.createElement('div'); const heading = document.createElement('h1'); const para1 = document.createElement('p'); const para2 = document.createElement('p'); const button = document.createElement('button'); heading.innerText = 'Heading'; para1.innerText = 'Paragraph 1'; para2.innerText = 'Paragraph 2'; button.innerText = 'Button'; el.appendChild(heading); el.appendChild(para1); el.appendChild(para2); el.appendChild(button); fragment.appendChild(el); document.documentElement.appendChild(fragment);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
DocumentFragment

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 123 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	319061.8 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment	237696.2 Ops/sec

innerHTML vs DocumentFragment (version: 0)