How to speedup jquery mobile / phonegap?

Question

I have a small web app. Seven pages, 3.6 KB index.html and 855.5 KB total. The only odd thing i have is a database (~500kb) in Javascript with many lines like:

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Answer 1

There are a few things you can do:

1. Get to deviceready faster.
2. Minimize your JS code using YUI Compressor
3. Move your script tags to the bottom of the body tag.

As you've already mentioned you've moved the database out of the equation which was probably taking a bulk of the time on startup.