diff --git a/backend-compliance/compliance/api/agent_compliance_check_routes.py b/backend-compliance/compliance/api/agent_compliance_check_routes.py
index 27b2cedd..d2f6a019 100644
--- a/backend-compliance/compliance/api/agent_compliance_check_routes.py
+++ b/backend-compliance/compliance/api/agent_compliance_check_routes.py
@@ -409,16 +409,17 @@ async def _fetch_text(url: str) -> str:
     2. Fallback: direct HTTP fetch + HTML strip — fast, works for SSR pages
     """
     # 1. Consent-tester (Playwright-based, full JS rendering).
-    # Timeout 180s: a single dsi-discovery does self-extraction + follows up
-    # to 3 sub-links + waits for CMP JSON payloads. 60s was tight enough that
-    # cookie-policy pages on big SPAs (BMW, Daimler) timed out and fell back
-    # to the raw HTTP fetch, which returned site navigation as garbage text.
+    # max_documents=1: for a *specific* user-entered URL (cookie, impressum,
+    # privacy) we only want the self-extracted text of THAT page. Following
+    # sub-links was triggering 4x networkidle timeouts (~240s) and made the
+    # backend httpx call time out, dropping us to the raw HTTP fallback
+    # which returned site navigation as garbage text.
     try:
-        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=180.0) as client:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=120.0) as client:
             resp = await client.post(
                 f"{CONSENT_TESTER_URL}/dsi-discovery",
-                json={"url": url, "max_documents": 3},
-                timeout=180.0,
+                json={"url": url, "max_documents": 1},
+                timeout=120.0,
             )
             if resp.status_code == 200:
                 docs = resp.json().get("documents", [])
diff --git a/consent-tester/services/dsi_helpers.py b/consent-tester/services/dsi_helpers.py
index 9065db95..8e34e118 100644
--- a/consent-tester/services/dsi_helpers.py
+++ b/consent-tester/services/dsi_helpers.py
@@ -14,14 +14,16 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 async def goto_resilient(page: Page, url: str, timeout: int = 60000) -> None:
     """Navigate to URL with fallback: try networkidle first, then domcontentloaded.
 
-    SPAs like Zalando never reach networkidle because of continuous background
-    requests. Falling back to domcontentloaded + a short wait gives JS time to
-    render the main content without waiting for every network request to finish.
+    SPAs like Zalando, BMW, Daimler never reach networkidle because of continuous
+    background requests (analytics, lazy-loaded assets, polling). The 60s wait
+    for networkidle is essentially always a 60s waste on those. We try briefly
+    (15s) and fall through to domcontentloaded + a 5s render-wait.
     """
+    networkidle_timeout = min(timeout, 15000)
     try:
-        await page.goto(url, wait_until="networkidle", timeout=timeout)
+        await page.goto(url, wait_until="networkidle", timeout=networkidle_timeout)
     except PlaywrightTimeout:
-        logger.info("networkidle timeout for %s, falling back to domcontentloaded", url)
+        logger.debug("networkidle timeout for %s, falling back to domcontentloaded", url)
         await page.goto(url, wait_until="domcontentloaded", timeout=timeout)
         await page.wait_for_timeout(5000)  # extra wait for JS rendering