Discourse mobile slow on 2013 Android phone

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This tests are using the chrome emulation, and not real devices too.

http://mobitest.akamai.com/m/results.cgi?testid=160330_9W_3E

This gives 7s with a cold cache.

Discourse is working on improving this:

The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is... poor

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