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,
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)"]]