Run results for: JS: insertBefore vs appendChild

Run details:

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

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

2.5M/s

append

2.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	2,477,103 Ops/sec
append	2,433,261 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: