diff --git a/controllers/tracker_controller.go b/controllers/tracker_controller.go
index 2b5d47d..d04cd15 100644
--- a/controllers/tracker_controller.go
+++ b/controllers/tracker_controller.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"sort"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // GetScoreByPlayerID GET /score/:player_id
@@ -77,9 +78,9 @@ func GetPlayerScore(playerName string) (float32, int) {
 
 func GetPlayerScoreNew(playerName string) (float32, int) {
 	playerData, statusCode := getPlayerData(playerName)
-	if statusCode == 408 { // retry once
-		playerData, statusCode = getPlayerData(playerName)
-	}
+	//if statusCode == 408 { // retry once
+	//	playerData, statusCode = getPlayerData(playerName)
+	//}
 	if statusCode != 200 {
 		return -1, statusCode
 	}
@@ -87,7 +88,9 @@ func GetPlayerScoreNew(playerName string) (float32, int) {
 }
 
 func getPlayerData(playerName string) (*models.TrackerDataJSON, int) {
-	c := http.Client{}
+	c := http.Client{
+		Timeout: 14 * time.Second, // Cloudflare timeout is 15s
+	}
 
 	reqUri := "https://api.gametools.network/bf2042/stats/?raw=false&format_values=false&name=" + playerName + "&platform=pc"
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", reqUri, nil)
@@ -97,6 +100,7 @@ func getPlayerData(playerName string) (*models.TrackerDataJSON, int) {
 	}
 
 	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br")
 
 	res, err := c.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {