diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
index e65d956b..8973f90a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ jobs:
           # Do not save the data (This allows comparing benchmarks)
           save-data-file: false
           fail-on-alert: true
-          comment-on-alert: true
+          # Comment on the PR if the branch is not a fork
+          comment-on-alert: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork == false }}
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           summary-always: true
           alert-threshold: "150%"
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4f533db5..08bf38a2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ format:
 
 ## format: 🎨 Find markdown format issues (Requires markdownlint-cli)
 .PHONY: markdown
-format:
+markdown:
 	markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md" "#vendor"
 
 ## lint: 🚨 Run lint checks
diff --git a/helpers.go b/helpers.go
index 68d8193a..804ab78f 100644
--- a/helpers.go
+++ b/helpers.go
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ func paramsMatch(specParamStr headerParams, offerParams string) bool {
 	for specParam, specVal := range specParamStr {
 		foundParam := false
 		fasthttp.VisitHeaderParams(utils.UnsafeBytes(offerParams), func(key, value []byte) bool {
-			if utils.EqualFold(specParam, string(key)) {
+			if utils.EqualFold(specParam, utils.UnsafeString(key)) {
 				foundParam = true
 				allSpecParamsMatch = utils.EqualFold(specVal, value)
 				return false
@@ -423,29 +423,31 @@ func getOffer(header []byte, isAccepted func(spec, offer string, specParams head
 	forEachMediaRange(header, func(accept []byte) {
 		order++
 		spec, quality := accept, 1.0
-
 		var params headerParams
 
 		if i := bytes.IndexByte(accept, ';'); i != -1 {
 			spec = accept[:i]
 
-			// The vast majority of requests will have only the q parameter with
-			// no whitespace. Check this first to see if we can skip
-			// the more involved parsing.
-			if bytes.HasPrefix(accept[i:], []byte(";q=")) && bytes.IndexByte(accept[i+3:], ';') == -1 {
-				if q, err := fasthttp.ParseUfloat(bytes.TrimRight(accept[i+3:], " ")); err == nil {
+			// Optimized quality parsing
+			qIndex := i + 3
+			if bytes.HasPrefix(accept[i:], []byte(";q=")) && bytes.IndexByte(accept[qIndex:], ';') == -1 {
+				if q, err := fasthttp.ParseUfloat(accept[qIndex:]); err == nil {
 					quality = q
 				}
 			} else {
 				params, _ = headerParamPool.Get().(headerParams) //nolint:errcheck // only contains headerParams
+				for k := range params {
+					delete(params, k)
+				}
 				fasthttp.VisitHeaderParams(accept[i:], func(key, value []byte) bool {
-					if string(key) == "q" {
+					if len(key) == 1 && key[0] == 'q' {
 						if q, err := fasthttp.ParseUfloat(value); err == nil {
 							quality = q
 						}
 						return false
 					}
-					params[utils.UnsafeString(utils.ToLowerBytes(key))] = value
+					lowerKey := utils.UnsafeString(utils.ToLowerBytes(key))
+					params[lowerKey] = value
 					return true
 				})
 			}
@@ -457,13 +459,16 @@ func getOffer(header []byte, isAccepted func(spec, offer string, specParams head
 			}
 		}
 
-		spec = bytes.TrimRight(spec, " ")
+		spec = bytes.TrimSpace(spec)
 
-		// Get specificity
+		// Determine specificity
 		var specificity int
+
 		// check for wildcard this could be a mime */* or a wildcard character *
 		switch {
-		case string(spec) == "*/*" || string(spec) == "*":
+		case len(spec) == 1 && spec[0] == '*':
+			specificity = 1
+		case bytes.Equal(spec, []byte("*/*")):
 			specificity = 1
 		case bytes.HasSuffix(spec, []byte("/*")):
 			specificity = 2
@@ -474,7 +479,13 @@ func getOffer(header []byte, isAccepted func(spec, offer string, specParams head
 		}
 
 		// Add to accepted types
-		acceptedTypes = append(acceptedTypes, acceptedType{spec: utils.UnsafeString(spec), quality: quality, specificity: specificity, order: order, params: params})
+		acceptedTypes = append(acceptedTypes, acceptedType{
+			spec:        utils.UnsafeString(spec),
+			quality:     quality,
+			specificity: specificity,
+			order:       order,
+			params:      params,
+		})
 	})
 
 	if len(acceptedTypes) > 1 {
@@ -483,30 +494,24 @@ func getOffer(header []byte, isAccepted func(spec, offer string, specParams head
 	}
 
 	// Find the first offer that matches the accepted types
-	ret := ""
-	done := false
 	for _, acceptedType := range acceptedTypes {
-		if !done {
-			for _, offer := range offers {
-				if offer == "" {
-					continue
-				}
-				if isAccepted(acceptedType.spec, offer, acceptedType.params) {
-					ret = offer
-					done = true
-					break
+		for _, offer := range offers {
+			if offer == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			if isAccepted(acceptedType.spec, offer, acceptedType.params) {
+				if acceptedType.params != nil {
+					headerParamPool.Put(acceptedType.params)
 				}
+				return offer
 			}
 		}
 		if acceptedType.params != nil {
-			for p := range acceptedType.params {
-				delete(acceptedType.params, p)
-			}
 			headerParamPool.Put(acceptedType.params)
 		}
 	}
 
-	return ret
+	return ""
 }
 
 // sortAcceptedTypes sorts accepted types by quality and specificity, preserving order of equal elements
diff --git a/helpers_test.go b/helpers_test.go
index caf4983d..ac07a77a 100644
--- a/helpers_test.go
+++ b/helpers_test.go
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_GetOffer(b *testing.B) {
 		},
 	}
 
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		accept := []byte(tc.accept)
 		b.Run(tc.description, func(b *testing.B) {
@@ -205,6 +207,8 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_ParamsMatch(b *testing.B) {
 		"appLe": []byte("orange"),
 		"param": []byte("foo"),
 	}
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		match = paramsMatch(specParams, `;param=foo; apple=orange`)
 	}
@@ -317,6 +321,8 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_GetSplicedStrList(b *testing.B) {
 	destination := make([]string, 5)
 	result := destination
 	const input = `deflate, gzip,br,brotli,zstd`
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		result = getSplicedStrList(input, destination)
 	}
@@ -359,6 +365,8 @@ func Test_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes(t *testing.T) {
 // go test -v -run=^$ -bench=Benchmark_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes_Sorted -benchmem -count=4
 func Benchmark_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes_Sorted(b *testing.B) {
 	acceptedTypes := make([]acceptedType, 3)
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		acceptedTypes[0] = acceptedType{spec: "text/html", quality: 1, specificity: 1, order: 0}
 		acceptedTypes[1] = acceptedType{spec: "text/*", quality: 0.5, specificity: 1, order: 1}
@@ -373,6 +381,8 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes_Sorted(b *testing.B) {
 // go test -v -run=^$ -bench=Benchmark_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes_Unsorted -benchmem -count=4
 func Benchmark_Utils_SortAcceptedTypes_Unsorted(b *testing.B) {
 	acceptedTypes := make([]acceptedType, 11)
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		acceptedTypes[0] = acceptedType{spec: "text/html", quality: 1, specificity: 3, order: 0}
 		acceptedTypes[1] = acceptedType{spec: "text/*", quality: 0.5, specificity: 2, order: 1}
@@ -452,9 +462,10 @@ func Test_Utils_getGroupPath(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // go test -v -run=^$ -bench=Benchmark_Utils_ -benchmem -count=3
-
 func Benchmark_Utils_getGroupPath(b *testing.B) {
 	var res string
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		_ = getGroupPath("/v1/long/path/john/doe", "/why/this/name/is/so/awesome")
 		_ = getGroupPath("/v1", "/")
@@ -467,7 +478,8 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_getGroupPath(b *testing.B) {
 func Benchmark_Utils_Unescape(b *testing.B) {
 	unescaped := ""
 	dst := make([]byte, 0)
-
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
 		source := "/cr%C3%A9er"
 		pathBytes := utils.UnsafeBytes(source)
@@ -529,6 +541,8 @@ func Test_Utils_IsNoCache(t *testing.T) {
 // go test -v -run=^$ -bench=Benchmark_Utils_IsNoCache -benchmem -count=4
 func Benchmark_Utils_IsNoCache(b *testing.B) {
 	var ok bool
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		_ = isNoCache("public")
 		_ = isNoCache("no-cache")
@@ -544,7 +558,10 @@ func Benchmark_Utils_IsNoCache(b *testing.B) {
 func Benchmark_SlashRecognition(b *testing.B) {
 	search := "wtf/1234"
 	var result bool
+
 	b.Run("indexBytes", func(b *testing.B) {
+		b.ReportAllocs()
+		b.ResetTimer()
 		result = false
 		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 			if strings.IndexByte(search, slashDelimiter) != -1 {
@@ -554,6 +571,8 @@ func Benchmark_SlashRecognition(b *testing.B) {
 		require.True(b, result)
 	})
 	b.Run("forEach", func(b *testing.B) {
+		b.ReportAllocs()
+		b.ResetTimer()
 		result = false
 		c := int32(slashDelimiter)
 		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
@@ -567,6 +586,8 @@ func Benchmark_SlashRecognition(b *testing.B) {
 		require.True(b, result)
 	})
 	b.Run("IndexRune", func(b *testing.B) {
+		b.ReportAllocs()
+		b.ResetTimer()
 		result = false
 		c := int32(slashDelimiter)
 		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {