# Is there any way to speed up Documenter a bit?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-documenter-a-bit/39345>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** documentation, documenter\
**Created:** [May 12, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-documenter-a-bit/39345 "2020-05-12T12:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xing_shi_cai/32/14128_2.png) [@Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Xing_Shi_Cai)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-documenter-a-bit/39345/1 "2020-05-12T12:32:39Z")

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I use Documenter to build a fairly small site with very few pages. But it still takes two and a half minutes for it to finish. This makes fixing things and seeing the change very tedious. Is there a way to speed things up a bit at least for test?

I have turned of doctest but that does not help much since I only have a few of it. I have also tried to just include 1 or 2 pages, but that does not make things faster. Using compiled Plots.jl does not help much either. I guess the bottleneck must be somewhere else.

An idea would be just some how compile just one page to see the effect without doing all the cross-ref things. But I don’t see how to do it.

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-documenter-a-bit/39345/2 "2020-05-12T12:44:55Z")

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How do you run `makedocs`? If you use `julia make.jl` (or similar) then you can instead just `include("make.jl")` in a long-running session. That should make doc builds almost instant, unless you have long-running examples or similar.

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**Author:** ![Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xing_shi_cai/32/14128_2.png) [@Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Xing_Shi_Cai)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-documenter-a-bit/39345/3 "2020-05-12T12:54:19Z")

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This really speeds things up! Maybe it should be included in the document!