diff --git a/whatsdirty b/whatsdirty
index 625f6c5..e0e1805 100755
--- a/whatsdirty
+++ b/whatsdirty
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ get_changed_files_list() {
 analyze_repository() {
     local repo_path="$1"
     local base_dir="$2"
+    local skip_fetch="$3"
     local repo_name
 
     # Calculate relative path from base directory
@@ -187,8 +188,10 @@ analyze_repository() {
 
     cd "$repo_path" || return 1
 
-    # Fetch remote updates first
-    fetch_remote_status
+    # Fetch remote updates first (unless already done in parallel)
+    if [ "$skip_fetch" != "skip_fetch" ]; then
+        fetch_remote_status
+    fi
 
     # Check upstream status
     local upstream_info
@@ -383,20 +386,38 @@ print_clean_repositories() {
 scan_repositories() {
     local scan_dir="$1"
     local temp_file="$2"
-    
-    # Use find to recursively locate all .git directories
+
+    # First, collect all repository paths
+    local -a repo_paths=()
     while IFS= read -r git_dir; do
-        # Get the repository path (parent of .git)
         local repo_path
         repo_path=$(dirname "$git_dir")
-        
+        repo_paths+=("$repo_path")
+    done < <(find "$scan_dir" -type d -path "*_deps*" -prune -o -type d -name ".git" -print 2>/dev/null | sort)
+
+    # Parallelize git fetch for all repositories
+    local -a fetch_pids=()
+    for repo_path in "${repo_paths[@]}"; do
+        (
+            cd "$repo_path" 2>/dev/null && timeout 5 git fetch --all --quiet 2>/dev/null || true
+        ) &
+        fetch_pids+=($!)
+    done
+
+    # Wait for all fetches to complete
+    for pid in "${fetch_pids[@]}"; do
+        wait "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+    done
+
+    # Now analyze all repositories (fetch data is already cached)
+    for repo_path in "${repo_paths[@]}"; do
         local repo_data
-        repo_data=$(analyze_repository "$repo_path" "$scan_dir")
+        repo_data=$(analyze_repository "$repo_path" "$scan_dir" "skip_fetch")
         if [ -n "$repo_data" ]; then
             echo "$repo_data" >> "$temp_file"
         fi
         cd "$scan_dir" || exit 1
-    done < <(find "$scan_dir" -type d -name ".git" 2>/dev/null | sort)
+    done
 }
 
 main() {