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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 92

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
.append()	146618.4 Ops/sec
.appendTo()	122175.8 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");