diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bbb902c5..d7fa2fe8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ CSS_MIN=$(NODE_MODULES)/.bin/cleancss
 JS_MIN=$(NODE_MODULES)/.bin/uglifyjs
 JS_HINT=$(NODE_MODULES)/.bin/jshint
 D3=$(NODE_MODULES)/d3
-JSDOM=$(NODE_MODULES)/jsdom
-NODEUNIT=$(NODE_MODULES)/nodeunit
 
 CSS_FILES=\
 	src/css/detail.css\
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ build: rickshaw.min.css rickshaw.min.js
 clean:
 	rm -rf rickshaw.css rickshaw.js rickshaw.min.*
 
-test: $(D3) $(JSDOM) $(NODEUNIT)
+test: $(D3)
 	npm test
 
 $(JS_HINT):
@@ -76,12 +74,6 @@ $(JS_MIN):
 $(D3):
 	npm install d3
 
-$(JSDOM):
-	npm install jsdom
-
-$(NODEUNIT):
-	npm install nodeunit
-
 rickshaw.css: $(CSS_FILES)
 	cat $(CSS_FILES) > rickshaw.css
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 515bfde3..7b6068ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ Rickshaw relies on the fantastic [D3 visualization library](http://mbostock.gith
 
 Some extensions require [jQuery](http://jquery.com) and [jQuery UI](http://jqueryui.com), but for drawing some basic graphs you'll be okay without.
 
-Rickshaw uses [jsdom](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom) to run unit tests in Node to be able to do SVG manipulation. As of the jsdom 7.0.0 release, jsdom requires Node.js 4 or newer [jsdom changelog](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/blob/master/Changelog.md#700). If you want to run the tests on your machine, and you don't have access to a version of node >= 4.0, you can `npm install jsdom@3`  so that you can run the tests using the [3.x branch of jsdom](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/tree/3.x).
 
 ## Rickshaw.Graph
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 06bbbf80..3610a685 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
     "jest": "^29.7.0",
     "jest-environment-jsdom": "^29.7.0",
     "jquery": "^3.2.1",
-    "jsdom": "^8.1.0",
     "jshint": "^2.9.5",
     "nodemon": "^1.11.0",
     "uglify-js": "^2.8.29"