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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, 


@@ -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)"]]