As I am sure you already know, the number of content pages is only one of many factors that determines build time. For example:
git clone --single-branch -b hugo-github-issue-8602 https://github.com/jmooring/hugo-testing hugo-github-
cd hugo-github-issue-8602
hugo
| EN
-------------------+--------
Pages | 10461
Paginator pages | 1035
Non-page files | 0
Static files | 0
Processed images | 0 <-- no image processing
Aliases | 10
Sitemaps | 0
Cleaned | 0
Total in 4445 ms
That’s about 0.0005 seconds per page.
No. In the example above…
- Pages: 10,461 (content pages + section pages + home page)
- Paginator pages (pagers): 1035