diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index aa5af5c..5fedfb3 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/ban-types, @typescript-eslint/consistent-type-definitions */
 
+import type {Options as DeadOrAliveOptions} from 'dead-or-alive'
+
 export {default} from './lib/index.js'
 
 /**
  * Configuration.
  */
 export interface Options {
+  /**
+   * Options passed to `dead-or-alive`
+   * (optional);
+   * `deadOrAliveOptions.findUrls` is always off as further URLs are not used
+   * by `remark-lint-no-dead-urls`.
+   */
+  deadOrAliveOptions?: DeadOrAliveOptions | null | undefined
   /**
    * Check relative values relative to this URL
    * (optional, example: `'https://example.com/from'`).
@@ -14,7 +23,9 @@ export interface Options {
   /**
    * Whether to ignore `localhost` links such as `http://localhost/*`,
    * `http://127.0.0.1/*`
-   * (default: `false`).
+   * (default: `false`);
+   * shortcut for a skip pattern of
+   * `/^(https?:\/\/)(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1)(:\d+)?/`.
    */
   skipLocalhost?: boolean | null | undefined
   /**
diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index b577321..03da460 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ export default remarkLintNoDeadUrls
 /**
  * Check URLs.
  *
+ * ###### Notes
+ *
+ * To improve performance,
+ * decrease `deadOrAliveOptions.maxRetries` and/or decrease the value used
+ * for `deadOrAliveOptions.sleep`.
+ * The normal behavior is to assume connections might be flakey and to sleep a
+ * while and retry a couple times.
+ *
+ * If you do not care about whether anchors work and HTML redirects you can
+ * pass `deadOrAliveOptions.checkAnchor: false` and
+ * `deadOrAliveOptions.followMetaHttpEquiv: false`,
+ * which enables a fast path without parsing HTML.
+ *
  * @param {Root} tree
  *   Tree.
  * @param {VFile} file
@@ -55,6 +68,7 @@ async function rule(tree, file, options) {
 
   if (settings.skipLocalhost) {
     defaultSkipUrlPatterns.push(/^(https?:\/\/)(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1)(:\d+)?/)
+    // To do: this is broken?!
     return
   }
 
@@ -81,6 +95,11 @@ async function rule(tree, file, options) {
       ? new URL(meta.pathname, meta.origin).href
       : undefined)
 
+  const deadOrAliveOptions = {
+    ...settings.deadOrAliveOptions,
+    findUrls: false
+  }
+
   visit(tree, function (node) {
     if ('url' in node && typeof node.url === 'string') {
       const value = node.url
@@ -129,19 +148,7 @@ async function rule(tree, file, options) {
     urls.map(async function (url) {
       const nodes = nodesByUrl.get(url)
       assert(nodes)
-      const result = await deadOrAlive(url, {
-        findUrls: false
-        // To do:
-        // * `anchorAllowlist`
-        // * `checkAnchor`
-        // * `followMetaHttpEquiv`
-        // * `maxRedirects`
-        // * `maxRetries`
-        // * `resolveClobberPrefix`
-        // * `sleep`
-        // * `timeout`
-        // * `userAgent`
-      })
+      const result = await deadOrAlive(url, deadOrAliveOptions)
 
       for (const node of nodes) {
         for (const message of result.messages) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 21fb391..1ad4237 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^20.0.0",
-    "c8": "^9.0.0",
+    "c8": "^10.0.0",
     "prettier": "^3.0.0",
     "remark": "^15.0.0",
     "remark-cli": "^12.0.0",
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 10aa181..00943e8 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -299,6 +299,34 @@ test('should support anchors', async () => {
   )
 })
 
+test('should support `deadOrAlive` options', async () => {
+  const globalDispatcher = getGlobalDispatcher()
+  const mockAgent = new MockAgent()
+  mockAgent.enableNetConnect(/(?=a)b/)
+  setGlobalDispatcher(mockAgent)
+  const site = mockAgent.get('https://example.com')
+
+  site.intercept({path: '/'}).reply(200, '<h1>hi</h1>', {
+    headers: {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}
+  })
+
+  const file = await remark().use(remarkLintNoDeadUrls, {
+    deadOrAliveOptions: {checkAnchor: false}
+  }).process(`
+[b](https://example.com#does-not-exist)
+  `)
+
+  await mockAgent.close()
+  await setGlobalDispatcher(globalDispatcher)
+
+  file.messages.sort(compareMessage)
+
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    file.messages.map((d) => d.reason),
+    []
+  )
+})
+
 test('should support redirects', async () => {
   const globalDispatcher = getGlobalDispatcher()
   const mockAgent = new MockAgent()