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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, 


@@ -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.