diff --git a/website/tests/compareSideBySide.spec.ts b/website/tests/compareSideBySide.spec.ts
index 2ccfa925e..102df74d4 100644
--- a/website/tests/compareSideBySide.spec.ts
+++ b/website/tests/compareSideBySide.spec.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ test.describe('The Compare Side-By-Side page', () => {
         test(`should show diagrams after selecting a variant in both columns - ${organism}`, async ({
             compareSideBySidePage,
         }) => {
+            test.setTimeout(60_000); // there is a lot of data to load, so we need the test to run longer
+
             const options = organismOptions[organism];
 
             await compareSideBySidePage.goto(organism);