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Run results for:
JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0
Browser:
Firefox 130
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
appendChild
4.7M/s
insertBefore
4.6M/s
prepend
4.0M/s
insertAdjacentElement
3.9M/s
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Executions per second
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appendChild
4,658,788 Ops/sec
insertBefore
4,612,488 Ops/sec
prepend
4,003,133 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
3,905,057 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
Tests:
insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);
insertAdjacentElement
container.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', paragraph);