Is appending the html faster than pasting it multiple times?

Question:

Say that I have a <div class="statistics"></div> that I need placed in 5 different places in a single HTML page. That statistics div has a 6 row long list.

My question is this..

Is it faster to use:

<div class="statistics"></div>

and then use jquery like this:

$( ".statistics" ).append( $(<ul><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li></ul>'));

...rather than copy/paste the code in those 5 different places ?

If you want faster and efficient with use of jQuery we can use it with native js

$('.statistics').each(function(i) {
    var newDOM = document.createElement('ul');
    newDOM.innerHTML = '<li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li><li>content</li>';

    this[i].appendChild(newDOM);
});

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