Run results for: jQuery .append() vs .appendTo()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

.append()

14K/s

.appendTo()

12K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ .append()	13,758 Ops/sec
.appendTo()	11,885 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<span id="message">. Bienvenue sur le site web</span>
<p id="salutation">Bonjour</p>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>

Tests:

.append()
$("#salutation").append($("#message"));
.appendTo()
$("#message").appendTo("#salutation");