diff --git a/.npmrc b/.npmrc
index a140ea6b576..07fa88e48d1 100644
--- a/.npmrc
+++ b/.npmrc
@@ -3,3 +3,10 @@ auto-install-peers=true
 strict-peer-dependencies=false
 ; See https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/8363 (we adding the setting now, to not miss when migrating to pnpm 9.7+)
 manage-package-manager-versions=true
+
+; pnpm installation speed tweaks
+; https://pnpm.io/npmrc#modules-cache-max-age, 20160 is for two weeks in minutes
+modules-cache-max-age=20160
+; https://pnpm.io/npmrc#child-concurrency, default 5
+; Changing to 16 to align with https://pnpm.io/npmrc#network-concurrency
+child-concurrency=16