Took me a while to cotton on to this, but adjusting my posting workflow slightly has made a big difference to the time taken to publish a blog post . Pasting content into Blogger's WYSIWYG interface [ Compose ], which just for the text so far results in this, <br /> <div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div style="margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Took me a while to cotton on to this, but adjusting my posting workflow slightly has made a big difference to the time taken to publish a </span><a href="http://blog.skullcinema.com/2018/12/eight-steps-to-blog-posting.html"><span style="font-family: " font-size: 12.0pt;">blog post</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">. </span></div> <br /> <