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,
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.