Benchmark: JS: insertBefore vs appendChild2

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph1 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph2 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph3 = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph1, null); container.insertBefore(paragraph2, null); container.insertBefore(paragraph3, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph1); container.appendChild(paragraph2); container.appendChild(paragraph3);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
insertBefore
appendChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SM-G986U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 89 on Android

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Test name	Executions per second
insertBefore	153707.7 Ops/sec
appendChild	153238.8 Ops/sec

JS: insertBefore vs appendChild2 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: insertBefore vs appendChild

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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insertBefore

appendChild

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A