diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 44bedd5..475eaca 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 language: R
 apt_packages:
+  # required by pkgdown
   - libharfbuzz-dev
   - libfribidi-dev
+r_packages:
+  - covr
+  - pkgdown
 cache: packages
 after_success:
   - Rscript -e 'covr::codecov()'
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0f91d38..408629a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ Imports:
     R6,
     rlang (>= 0.3.0)
 Suggests:
-    covr,
     curl,
     httpuv,
-    pkgdown,
     testthat (>= 2.1.0),
     usethis
 Encoding: UTF-8