diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f5b274..bbcb8ec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ This is a simple proxy load balancer that will route requests to a cluster of pr
 
 This proxy server will transparently forward HTTPS requests without terminating them, meaning a self-signed certificate is not required. Downstream HTTPS proxy servers are not supported.
 
+Memory usage sits at around 25M under load.
+
 ## Install
 
 1.  Download the latest release from [/releases](https://git.evulid.cc/cyberes/proxy-loadbalancer/releases) or run `./build.sh` to build the program locally.
diff --git a/src/proxy/checkProxy.go b/src/proxy/checkProxy.go
index de5367d..bf8f24f 100644
--- a/src/proxy/checkProxy.go
+++ b/src/proxy/checkProxy.go
@@ -25,17 +25,35 @@ func sendRequestThroughProxy(pxy string, targetURL string) (string, error) {
 		Timeout:   config.GetConfig().ProxyConnectTimeout,
 	}
 
-	response, err := client.Get(targetURL)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	defer response.Body.Close()
-	if response.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
-		bodyBytes, err := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
+
+	req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
+	req.Header.Set("Priority", "u=0, i")
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Ch-Ua", `"Chromium";v="124", "Google Chrome";v="124", "Not-A.Brand";v="99"`)
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile", "?0")
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform", `"Windows"`)
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Fetch-Dest", "document")
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Fetch-Mode", "navigate")
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Fetch-Site", "cross-site")
+	req.Header.Set("Sec-Fetch-User", "?1")
+	req.Header.Set("Upgrade-Insecure-Requests", "1")
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
+		bodyBytes, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
 		if err != nil {
 			return "", err
 		}
 		return string(bodyBytes), nil
 	}
-	return "", fmt.Errorf("bad response code %d", response.StatusCode)
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("bad response code %d", resp.StatusCode)
 }
diff --git a/src/proxy/threads.go b/src/proxy/threads.go
index e008f90..e0bd6be 100644
--- a/src/proxy/threads.go
+++ b/src/proxy/threads.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func (p *ForwardProxyCluster) ValidateProxiesThread() {
 				// Test the proxy.
 				ipAddr, testErr := sendRequestThroughProxy(pxy, config.GetConfig().IpCheckerURL)
 				if testErr != nil {
-					log.Warnf("Validate - proxy %s failed: %s", proxyHost, testErr)
+					log.Warnf("Validate - %s failed: %s", proxyHost, testErr)
 					if isThirdparty(pxy) {
 						newThirdpartyOfflineProxies = append(newThirdpartyOfflineProxies, pxy)
 					} else {
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func (p *ForwardProxyCluster) ValidateProxiesThread() {
 					return
 				}
 				if slices.Contains(newIpAddresses, ipAddr) {
-					log.Warnf("Validate - duplicate IP Address %s for proxy %s", ipAddr, proxyHost)
+					log.Warnf("Validate - duplicate IP Address %s for %s", ipAddr, proxyHost)
 					if isThirdparty(pxy) {
 						newThirdpartyOfflineProxies = append(newThirdpartyOfflineProxies, pxy)
 					} else {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ func (p *ForwardProxyCluster) ValidateProxiesThread() {
 						if bv3hiErr != nil {
 							okToAdd = false
 							newThirdpartyBrokenProxies = append(newThirdpartyBrokenProxies, pxy)
-							log.Debugf("Validate - Third-party %s failed: %s", proxyHost, bv3hiErr)
+							log.Debugf("Validate - %s failed third-party test: %s", proxyHost, bv3hiErr)
 							break
 						}
 					}