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+++ b/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn
@@ -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.
 
+## 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, 
@@ -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
-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.
 
@@ -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
-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)"]]