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@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ If your version of ikiwiki is not [[!version]], try upgrading. New
 optimisations are frequently added to ikiwiki, some of them yielding
 *enormous* speed increases.
 
 optimisations are frequently added to ikiwiki, some of them yielding
 *enormous* speed increases.
 

+## run ikiwiki in verbose mode
+
+Try changing a page, and run ikiwiki with `-v` so it will tell you
+everything it does to deal with that changed page. Take note of
+which other pages are rebuilt, and which parts of the build take a long
+time. This can help you zero in on individual pages that contain some of
+the expensive things listed below. 
+

 ## expensive inlines
 
 Do you have an archive page for your blog that shows all posts, 
 ## expensive inlines
 
 Do you have an archive page for your blog that shows all posts, 


@@ -64,7 +72,7 @@ smaller.
        
        \[[!inline pages="blog/* and link(tag)" show=0 archive=yes quick=yes]]
 
        
        \[[!inline pages="blog/* and link(tag)" show=0 archive=yes quick=yes]]
 

-Only downsides: This won't show titles set by the [[!ikiwiki/directive/meta]]
+Only downsides: This won't show titles set by the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]]

 directive. And there's no RSS feed for users to use -- but if this page
 is only for the archives or tag for your blog, users should be subscribing
 to the blog's main page's RSS feed instead.
 directive. And there's no RSS feed for users to use -- but if this page
 is only for the archives or tag for your blog, users should be subscribing
 to the blog's main page's RSS feed instead.


@@ -85,7 +93,7 @@ The resulting html file might get big and expensive to generate as you
 keep adding pages.
 
 First, consider removing the "show=title". Then the map will not show page
 keep adding pages.
 
 First, consider removing the "show=title". Then the map will not show page

-titles set by the [[!ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive -- but will also
+titles set by the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive -- but will also

 only need to be generated when pages are added or removed, not for every
 page change.
 
 only need to be generated when pages are added or removed, not for every
 page change.
 


@@ -130,7 +138,7 @@ all the pages on a traditional, highly WikiLinked wiki, is asking for things
 to be slow. But using it to map a few related pages is probably fine.
 
 This site's own [[plugins/linkmap]] rarely slows it down, because it
 to be slow. But using it to map a few related pages is probably fine.
 
 This site's own [[plugins/linkmap]] rarely slows it down, because it

-only shows the [[index]] page, and the small set of pages that link to it.
+only shows the index page, and the small set of pages that link to it.

 That is accomplished as follows:
 
        \[[!linkmap pages="index or (backlink(index)"]]
 That is accomplished as follows:
 
        \[[!linkmap pages="index or (backlink(index)"]]