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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

insertBefore

5.1M/s

appendChild

4.9M/s

insertAdjacentElement

4.4M/s

prepend

4.1M/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: