diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index 78c20fba0b7..a9536792cc2 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Once you've made your working copy of the site repo, from the repo root folder,
 stop `hugo server --navigateToChanged` (with Ctrl+C) and run 
 
    ```
-   hugo
+   hugo --gc --minify
    ```
    
     This will generate the HTMLs in `public/` folder and this is actually what is being deployed
@@ -143,4 +143,4 @@ cp content/en/blog/releases/avro-1.10.2-released.md content/en/blog/releases/avr
 
 The API documentations for C/C++/C# are built by their respective `build.sh dist` implementations. The final HTML should be copied to the `external` folder, for example:
 
-    cp ../avro/build/avro-doc-1.12.0-SNAPSHOT/api/c/* content/en/docs/external/c/
\ No newline at end of file
+    cp ../avro/build/avro-doc-1.12.0-SNAPSHOT/api/c/* content/en/docs/external/c/