Run results for: JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

insertBefore

4.2M/s

appendChild

4.2M/s

insertAdjacentElement

4.0M/s

prepend

3.5M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");

Tests: