diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 99c52abb..143e1e96 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -162,10 +162,21 @@
 ]
 
 linkcheck_ignore = [
-    r"https://www\.gnu\.org/.*",  # Broken in GitHub actions
-    r"https://www\.freedesktop\.org/.*", # Uses Anubis so get "418 Client Error: I'm a teapot for url: ..."
+    r"https://www\.gnu\.org/.*",             # Broken in GitHub actions
+    r"https://www\.freedesktop\.org/.*",     # Uses Anubis so get "418 Client Error: I'm a teapot for url: ..."
+    r"https://gitlab\.gnome\.org/.*",        # 406 probably due to Anubis
+    r"https?://launchpad\.net/.*",           # Timeout in GitHub actions
 ]
 
+linkcheck_request_headers = {
+    "*": {
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0",
+    }
+}
+
+linkcheck_retries = 2
+linkcheck_timeout = 10
+
 # -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples