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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.
 
+## 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,