Run results for: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/123.0.6312.52 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 123

Operating system: iOS 17.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
1) innerHTML +=	4010658.0 Ops/sec
2) insertAdjacentHTML	1770333.0 Ops/sec
3) appendChild	546560.9 Ops/sec
4) insertAdjacentElement	446267.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

 box1 = document.createElement("div");

 box2 = document.createElement("div");
 box2HTML = box2.innerHTML;

Tests:

1) innerHTML +=
box1.innerHTML += box2HTML;
2) insertAdjacentHTML
box1.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', box2HTML);
3) appendChild
box1.appendChild(box2);
4) insertAdjacentElement
box1.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', box2);

Run results for: innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement

innerHTML vs insertAdjacentHTML vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement

1) innerHTML +=

2) insertAdjacentHTML

3) appendChild

4) insertAdjacentElement