Sort jQuery elements

Trying to figure out a more scalable solution to sorting DOM elements using jQuery

by juErik

HTML

<div id="original">
  <div timestamp="99">99</div>
  <div timestamp="999">999</div>
  <div timestamp="12">12</div>
  <div timestamp="11">11</div>
  <div timestamp="10">10</div>
  <div timestamp="99">9</div>
  <div timestamp="8">8</div>
  <div timestamp="7">7</div>
  <div timestamp="6">6</div>
  <div timestamp="5">5</div>
  <div timestamp="4">4</div>
  <div timestamp="3">3</div>
  <div timestamp="2">2</div>
  <div timestamp="1">1</div>
  <div timestamp="9999">9999</div>
</div>

<h1>Results</h1>
<div id="results"></div>

<h1>jQuery calls <span id="calls"><span/></h1>

CSS

body {
  background-color: #1c2128;
  color: #fff;
  margin: 20px;
}

JavaScript

// get array of elements
var myArray = $("#original div");
var count = 0;

// sort based on timestamp attribute
myArray.sort(function (a, b) {
    
    // convert to integers from strings
    a = parseInt($(a).attr("timestamp"), 10);
    b = parseInt($(b).attr("timestamp"), 10);
    count += 2;
    // compare
    if(a > b) {
        return 1;
    } else if(a < b) {
        return -1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
});

// put sorted results back on page
$("#results").append(myArray);
$("#calls").append(count+1);