diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index de9a820..fa9e96c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "actix-governor"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2e7b88f3804e01bd4191fdb08650430bbfcb43d3d9b2890064df3551ec7d25b"
+checksum = "0954b0f27aabd8f56bb03f2a77b412ddf3f8c034a3c27b2086c1fc75415760df"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-http",
  "actix-web",
@@ -1180,9 +1180,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "error-stack"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "27a72baa257b5e0e2de241967bc5ee8f855d6072351042688621081d66b2a76b"
+checksum = "fe413319145d1063f080f27556fd30b1d70b01e2ba10c2a6e40d4be982ffc5d1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "rustc_version 0.4.1",
@@ -2411,12 +2411,31 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "38bf9645c8b145698bb0b18a4637dcacbc421ea49bef2317e4fd8065a387cf21"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-bigint"
+version = "0.4.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a5e44f723f1133c9deac646763579fdb3ac745e418f2a7af9cd0c431da1f20b9"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-integer",
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-conv"
 version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "51d515d32fb182ee37cda2ccdcb92950d6a3c2893aa280e540671c2cd0f3b1d9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-integer"
+version = "0.1.46"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7969661fd2958a5cb096e56c8e1ad0444ac2bbcd0061bd28660485a44879858f"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
 version = "0.2.19"
@@ -3127,9 +3146,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "redis"
-version = "0.25.4"
+version = "0.27.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e0d7a6955c7511f60f3ba9e86c6d02b3c3f144f8c24b288d1f4e18074ab8bbec"
+checksum = "a7e86f5670bd8b028edfb240f0616cad620705b31ec389d55e4f3da2c38dcd48"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "async-trait",
@@ -3138,6 +3157,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures 0.3.30",
  "futures-util",
  "itoa 1.0.11",
+ "num-bigint",
  "percent-encoding 2.3.1",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "ryu",
@@ -3164,9 +3184,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
-version = "1.10.6"
+version = "1.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4219d74c6b67a3654a9fbebc4b419e22126d13d2f3c4a07ee0cb61ff79a79619"
+checksum = "38200e5ee88914975b69f657f0801b6f6dccafd44fd9326302a4aaeecfacb1d8"
 dependencies = [
  "aho-corasick 1.1.3",
  "memchr",
@@ -3176,9 +3196,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-automata"
-version = "0.4.7"
+version = "0.4.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "38caf58cc5ef2fed281f89292ef23f6365465ed9a41b7a7754eb4e26496c92df"
+checksum = "368758f23274712b504848e9d5a6f010445cc8b87a7cdb4d7cbee666c1288da3"
 dependencies = [
  "aho-corasick 1.1.3",
  "memchr",
@@ -3193,9 +3213,9 @@ checksum = "53a49587ad06b26609c52e423de037e7f57f20d53535d66e08c695f347df952a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-syntax"
-version = "0.8.4"
+version = "0.8.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7a66a03ae7c801facd77a29370b4faec201768915ac14a721ba36f20bc9c209b"
+checksum = "2b15c43186be67a4fd63bee50d0303afffcef381492ebe2c5d87f324e1b8815c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
@@ -3335,9 +3355,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustix"
-version = "0.38.36"
+version = "0.38.37"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3f55e80d50763938498dd5ebb18647174e0c76dc38c5505294bb224624f30f36"
+checksum = "8acb788b847c24f28525660c4d7758620a7210875711f79e7f663cc152726811"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "errno",
@@ -3831,9 +3851,9 @@ checksum = "7b2093cf4c8eb1e67749a6762251bc9cd836b6fc171623bd0a9d324d37af2417"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
-version = "3.12.0"
+version = "3.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "04cbcdd0c794ebb0d4cf35e88edd2f7d2c4c3e9a5a6dab322839b321c6a87a64"
+checksum = "f0f2c9fc62d0beef6951ccffd757e241266a2c833136efbe35af6cd2567dca5b"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
  "fastrand",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2421d50..b0b8980 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ mlua = { version = "0.9.9", features = [
     "luajit",
     "vendored",
 ], default-features = false }
-redis = { version = "0.25.4", features = [
+redis = { version = "0.27.2", features = [
     "tokio-comp",
     "connection-manager",
     "tcp_nodelay"
 ], default-features = false, optional = true }
 blake3 = { version = "1.5.4", default-features = false }
-error-stack = { version = "0.4.0", default-features = false, features = [
+error-stack = { version = "0.5.0", default-features = false, features = [
     "std",
 ] }
 async-trait = { version = "0.1.80", default-features = false }
-regex = { version = "1.9.4", features = ["perf"], default-features = false }
+regex = { version = "1.11.0", features = ["perf"], default-features = false }
 futures = { version = "0.3.30", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 dhat = { version = "0.3.2", optional = true, default-features = false }
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1.43", default-features = false }
 async-once-cell = { version = "0.5.3", default-features = false }
-actix-governor = { version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
+actix-governor = { version = "0.6.0", default-features = false }
 moka = { version = "0.12.8", optional = true, default-features = false, features = [
     "future",
 ] }
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ itertools = {version = "0.13.0", default-features = false}
 [dev-dependencies]
 rusty-hook = { version = "^0.11.2", default-features = false }
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false }
-tempfile = { version = "3.10.1", default-features = false }
+tempfile = { version = "3.13.0", default-features = false }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 lightningcss = { version = "1.0.0-alpha.57", default-features = false, features = [
diff --git a/src/cache/cacher.rs b/src/cache/cacher.rs
index 604d527..5eac473 100644
--- a/src/cache/cacher.rs
+++ b/src/cache/cacher.rs
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ impl SharedCache {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `url` - It takes the search url as an argument which will be used as the key to fetch the
-    /// cached results from the cache.
+    ///   cached results from the cache.
     ///
     /// # Error
     ///
@@ -563,9 +563,9 @@ impl SharedCache {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `search_results` - It takes the `SearchResults` as an argument which are results that
-    /// needs to be cached.
+    ///   needs to be cached.
     /// * `url` - It takes the search url as an argument which will be used as the key for storing
-    /// results in the cache.
+    ///   results in the cache.
     ///
     /// # Error
     ///
diff --git a/src/config/parser.rs b/src/config/parser.rs
index 8bed460..5ff9444 100644
--- a/src/config/parser.rs
+++ b/src/config/parser.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ pub struct Config {
     pub tcp_connection_keep_alive: u8,
     /// It stores the pool idle connection timeout in seconds.
     pub pool_idle_connection_timeout: u8,
+    /// It stores the number of https connections to keep in the pool.
+    pub number_of_https_connections: u8,
 }
 
 impl Config {
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ impl Config {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `logging_initialized` - It takes a boolean which ensures that the logging doesn't get
-    /// initialized twice. Pass false if the logger has not yet been initialized.
+    ///   initialized twice. Pass false if the logger has not yet been initialized.
     ///
     /// # Error
     ///
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ impl Config {
             request_timeout: globals.get::<_, u8>("request_timeout")?,
             tcp_connection_keep_alive: globals.get::<_, u8>("tcp_connection_keep_alive")?,
             pool_idle_connection_timeout: globals.get::<_, u8>("pool_idle_connection_timeout")?,
+            number_of_https_connections: globals.get::<_, u8>("number_of_https_connections")?,
             threads,
             client_connection_keep_alive: globals.get::<_, u8>("client_connection_keep_alive")?,
             rate_limiter: RateLimiter {
diff --git a/src/models/aggregation_models.rs b/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
index 01c67a6..53aa25b 100644
--- a/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
+++ b/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ use thesaurus::synonyms;
 /// A named struct to store the raw scraped search results scraped search results from the
 /// upstream search engines before aggregating it.It derives the Clone trait which is needed
 /// to write idiomatic rust using `Iterators`.
-/// (href url in html in simple words).
+///
+///   (href url in html in simple words).
+///
 #[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct SearchResult {
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ impl SearchResult {
     ///
     /// * `title` - The title of the search result.
     /// * `url` - The url which is accessed when clicked on it
-    /// (href url in html in simple words).
+    ///   (href url in html in simple words).
     /// * `description` - The description of the search result.
     /// * `engine` - The names of the upstream engines from which this results were provided.
     pub fn new(title: &str, url: &str, description: &str, engine: &[&str]) -> Self {
@@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ impl EngineErrorInfo {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `error` - It takes the error type which occured while fetching the result from a particular
-    /// search engine.
+    ///   search engine.
     /// * `engine` - It takes the name of the engine that failed to provide the requested search results.
     pub fn new(error: &EngineError, engine: &str) -> Self {
         Self {
@@ -177,11 +179,11 @@ impl SearchResults {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `results` - Takes an argument of individual serializable `SearchResult` struct
-    /// and stores it into a vector of `SearchResult` structs.
+    ///   and stores it into a vector of `SearchResult` structs.
     /// * `page_query` - Takes an argument of current page`s search query `q` provided in
-    /// the search url.
+    ///   the search url.
     /// * `engine_errors_info` - Takes an array of structs which contains information regarding
-    /// which engines failed with their names, reason and their severity color name.
+    ///   which engines failed with their names, reason and their severity color name.
     pub fn new(results: Box<[SearchResult]>, engine_errors_info: Box<[EngineErrorInfo]>) -> Self {
         Self {
             results,
diff --git a/src/models/parser_models.rs b/src/models/parser_models.rs
index 24b3fd8..5f578a5 100644
--- a/src/models/parser_models.rs
+++ b/src/models/parser_models.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ impl Style {
     ///
     /// * `theme` - It takes the parsed theme option used to set a theme for the website.
     /// * `colorscheme` - It takes the parsed colorscheme option used to set a colorscheme
-    /// for the theme being used.
+    ///   for the theme being used.
     pub fn new(theme: String, colorscheme: String, animation: Option<String>) -> Self {
         Style {
             theme,
diff --git a/src/results/aggregator.rs b/src/results/aggregator.rs
index 009111b..65d5a5e 100644
--- a/src/results/aggregator.rs
+++ b/src/results/aggregator.rs
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ type FutureVec =
 /// * `debug` - Accepts a boolean value to enable or disable debug mode option.
 /// * `upstream_search_engines` - Accepts a vector of search engine names which was selected by the
 /// * `request_timeout` - Accepts a time (secs) as a value which controls the server request timeout.
-/// user through the UI or the config file.
+///   user through the UI or the config file.
 ///
 /// # Error
 ///
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
                 config.pool_idle_connection_timeout as u64,
             ))
             .tcp_keepalive(Duration::from_secs(config.tcp_connection_keep_alive as u64))
+            .pool_max_idle_per_host(config.number_of_https_connections as usize)
             .connect_timeout(Duration::from_secs(config.request_timeout as u64)) // Add timeout to request to avoid DDOSing the server
             .https_only(true)
             .gzip(true)
diff --git a/src/server/routes/search.rs b/src/server/routes/search.rs
index d43ddec..9fa6877 100644
--- a/src/server/routes/search.rs
+++ b/src/server/routes/search.rs
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ pub async fn search(
 /// # Arguments
 ///
 /// * `url` - It takes the url of the current page that requested the search results for a
-/// particular search query.
+///   particular search query.
 /// * `config` - It takes a parsed config struct.
 /// * `query` - It takes the page number as u32 value.
 /// * `req` - It takes the `HttpRequest` struct as a value.
diff --git a/src/templates/partials/search_bar.rs b/src/templates/partials/search_bar.rs
index c40244c..9c6ea9c 100644
--- a/src/templates/partials/search_bar.rs
+++ b/src/templates/partials/search_bar.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const SAFE_SEARCH_LEVELS_NAME: [&str; 3] = ["None", "Low", "Moderate"];
 /// # Arguments
 ///
 /// * `engine_errors_info` - It takes the engine errors list containing errors for each upstream
-/// search engine which failed to provide results as an argument.
+///   search engine which failed to provide results as an argument.
 /// * `safe_search_level` - It takes the safe search level with values from 0-2 as an argument.
 /// * `query` - It takes the current search query provided by user as an argument.
 ///
diff --git a/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/engines.rs b/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/engines.rs
index de67ac7..ad67f80 100644
--- a/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/engines.rs
+++ b/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/engines.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use maud::{html, Markup};
 /// # Arguments
 ///
 /// * `engine_names` - It takes the key value pair list of all available engine names and there corresponding
-/// selected (enabled/disabled) value as an argument.
+///   selected (enabled/disabled) value as an argument.
 ///
 /// # Returns
 ///
diff --git a/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/user_interface.rs b/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/user_interface.rs
index 8f685be..87b0fb3 100644
--- a/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/user_interface.rs
+++ b/src/templates/partials/settings_tabs/user_interface.rs
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ use std::fs::read_dir;
 /// # Arguments
 ///
 /// * `style_type` - It takes the style type of the values `theme` and `colorscheme` as an
-/// argument.
+///   argument.
 /// * `selected_style` - It takes the currently selected style value provided via the config file
-/// as an argument.
+///   as an argument.
 ///
 /// # Error
 ///
diff --git a/websurfx/config.lua b/websurfx/config.lua
index a6ccf67..c8d49ac 100644
--- a/websurfx/config.lua
+++ b/websurfx/config.lua
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ rate_limiter = {
 }
 -- Set whether the server will use an adaptive/dynamic HTTPS window size, see https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9113.html#fc-principles
 https_adaptive_window_size = false
+
+number_of_https_connections = 10 -- the number of https connections that should be available in the connection pool.
 -- Set keep-alive timer in seconds; keeps clients connected to the HTTP server, different from the connection to upstream search engines
 client_connection_keep_alive = 120