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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Browser: Firefox 139

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

insertAdjacentElement

35K/s

insertBefore

21K/s

appendChild

17K/s

prepend

6K/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: