diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 3bc9303b..b7cfc38e 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -181,3 +181,4 @@
 # Retry requests in the linkcheck builder so that we're resilient against
 # transient network errors.
 linkcheck_retries = 10
+linkcheck_timeout = 5