diff --git a/lib/html-proofer/configuration.rb b/lib/html-proofer/configuration.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/html-proofer/configuration.rb
+++ b/lib/html-proofer/configuration.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ module HTMLProofer
       :headers => {
         'User-Agent' => "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; HTML Proofer/#{HTMLProofer::VERSION}; +https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer)"
       }
+      :connecttimeout => 10
     }
 
     HYDRA_DEFAULTS = {
Set Typhoeus connection timeout, fixes #<I>, #<I>