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Run results for:
insertAdjacentHTML vs insertBefore
Comparing performance of: insertBefore vs insertAdjacentHTML
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
insertBefore
195.6 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML
271.4 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="test"></div>
Script Preparation code:
function randomElement(parent) { const index = Math.floor(Math.random() * parent.children.length); return parent.children[index]; } var count = 1000;
Tests:
insertBefore
var newElement = document.createElement("div"); newElement.append(document.createElement("div")); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { var newElementPart = document.createElement("div"); newElementPart.classList.add("testClass"); newElement.insertBefore(newElementPart, randomElement(newElement)); } document.getElementById("test").append(newElement);
insertAdjacentHTML
var newElement = document.createElement("div"); newElement.append(document.createElement("div")); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { var newElementPart = document.createElement("div"); newElementPart.classList.add("testClass"); randomElement(newElement).insertAdjacentHTML("beforebegin",newElementPart); } document.getElementById("test").append(newElement);