Benchmark: jQuery .append() vs .appendTo()

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");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
.append()
.appendTo()

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 18 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
.append()	116772.4 Ops/sec
.appendTo()	99165.6 Ops/sec

jQuery .append() vs .appendTo() (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: .append() vs .appendTo()

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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.append()

.appendTo()

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A