Is THIS how Confluence cross-references are supposed to work?

[davis_smith]

Somehow, though my almost 2 years of working with Confluence, I've avoided creating links. Today (actually last Friday), that changed. I'm trying to create a link that, as with any other document-creation app I've used in 29 years as a tech writer, should work without delay.

When I click the Confluence link I just created, the program waits two full seconds before taking me to the start of the page where it waits approximately five seconds more. Then it takes me to the anchor. So, yes; the link works...almost ten seconds after the user clicks it.

This was my cross-reference creation process:

• Set the anchor
• Name the anchor
• Copy the link at the anchor
• Highlight the text I want to be the in-document link
• Press Ctrl-K
• Paste the link into the Search or paste a link box
• Click Insert
• Select Update without notifying watchers (they don't need to know I'm trying to figure out Confluence...)
• Click Edit
• I've been working though the steps as I've been writing the explanation and now the link doesn't work at all.

What am I doing wrong?