diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cf3cc8c87d..ed6eebde88 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ authors.py
 *.DS_Store
 # ignore files from tests
 .hypothesis/
-# ignore results from asv
+# ignore folders from asv
+benchmarks/env
+benchmarks/html
 benchmarks/results
 
 # duecredit
diff --git a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
index 3906cf6def..1bea9bd767 100644
--- a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
+++ b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
 
     // The Pythons you'd like to test against.  If not provided, defaults
     // to the current version of Python used to run `asv`.
-    "pythons": ["3.10"],
+    "pythons": ["3.11", "3.14"],
+    "build_command": [
+        "python -m build --wheel -o {build_cache_dir} {build_dir}"
+    ],
     // The matrix of dependencies to test.  Each key is the name of a
     // package (in PyPI) and the values are version numbers.  An empty
     // list indicates to just test against the default (latest)
@@ -30,10 +33,6 @@
     "matrix": {
         "Cython": [],
         "numpy": [],
-        "scipy": [],
-	    "six": [],
-	    "pytest": [],
-	    "mock": [],
         "MDAnalysisTests": [],
     },
     // The directory (relative to the current directory) that benchmarks are