Run results for: JS: insertBefore vs appendChild2

Run details:

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: Chrome Mobile 89

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

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

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);