diff --git a/common/src/tests/fan-out.js b/common/src/tests/fan-out.js
index 202a6ad..5c9cabe 100644
--- a/common/src/tests/fan-out.js
+++ b/common/src/tests/fan-out.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { BaseTest, RUN } from './base-test.js';
-import { nextMacrotask, qpNum, tryVerify } from './utils.js';
+import { nextFrameTask, nextMacrotask, qp, qpNum, tryVerify } from './utils.js';
 
 /**
  * One value, rendered in many places.
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ export class FanOut extends BaseTest {
    */
   #range;
 
+  /**
+   * Messages arrive as real tasks (that is what sockets do). `?yield=frame`
+   * spaces them a frame apart instead, so the conformance suite can trace
+   * frameworks whose scheduler renders at most once per frame.
+   *
+   * @type {() => Promise<unknown>}
+   */
+  #nextMessage = qp('yield') === 'frame' ? nextFrameTask : nextMacrotask;
+
   constructor({
     consumers = qpNum('consumers', 1_000),
     updates = qpNum('updates', 10_000),
@@ -137,7 +146,7 @@ export class FanOut extends BaseTest {
     // the first value never reached the DOM (found by
     // tests/specs/conformance.spec.ts). Before `:start`, so the hop is
     // not part of the measurement.
-    await nextMacrotask();
+    await this.#nextMessage();
 
     performance.mark(`:start`);
 
@@ -159,7 +168,7 @@ export class FanOut extends BaseTest {
 
       // The next message arrives as a new (macro)task,
       // like a real `websocket.on('message', ...)` would.
-      await nextMacrotask();
+      await this.#nextMessage();
     }
 
     tryVerify(name, this.verify);
diff --git a/common/src/tests/many-items.js b/common/src/tests/many-items.js
index a0aa8dc..c54f8ea 100644
--- a/common/src/tests/many-items.js
+++ b/common/src/tests/many-items.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export class ManyItems extends BaseTest {
   #percentRandomAwait = 0;
 
   /**
-   * @type {'micro' | 'macro'}
+   * @type {'micro' | 'macro' | 'frame'}
    */
   #yieldKind = yieldKind();
 
diff --git a/common/src/tests/one-item.js b/common/src/tests/one-item.js
index 2005b83..807d7eb 100644
--- a/common/src/tests/one-item.js
+++ b/common/src/tests/one-item.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export class OneItem extends BaseTest {
   #percentRandomAwait = 0;
 
   /**
-   * @type {'micro' | 'macro'}
+   * @type {'micro' | 'macro' | 'frame'}
    */
   #yieldKind = yieldKind();
 
diff --git a/common/src/tests/utils.js b/common/src/tests/utils.js
index b60dd23..42f09e1 100644
--- a/common/src/tests/utils.js
+++ b/common/src/tests/utils.js
@@ -134,6 +134,21 @@ export function nextMacrotask() {
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * A task that begins after the next animation frame has fired.
+ *
+ * setTimeout (not the MessageChannel hop): a frame-throttled scheduler
+ * (marko) parks pending renders on a rAF-posted MessageChannel message,
+ * and posted messages run before timers -- so by the time this resolves,
+ * such a framework has flushed and re-armed, and the next write renders
+ * on its own instead of coalescing into the previous frame.
+ */
+export function nextFrameTask() {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => setTimeout(resolve));
+  });
+}
+
 /**
  * How the update loops hand control back between updates.
  *
@@ -147,22 +162,31 @@ export function nextMacrotask() {
  * `macro` is a real task, the same MessageChannel hop fan-out uses, which
  * is how a `websocket.on('message')` handler is actually reached.
  *
+ * `frame` is an animation frame and then a task ({@link nextFrameTask}):
+ * one write per *frame*, so even a scheduler with a frame-rate floor has
+ * nothing left to coalesce. The conformance suite uses it to trace
+ * frame-throttled frameworks; it is far too slow to measure with.
+ *
  * `micro` stays the default: it is what every recorded run so far used, and
  * a real task per update would put the 100k-update variants into the
  * minutes.
  *
- * @returns {'micro' | 'macro'}
+ * @returns {'micro' | 'macro' | 'frame'}
  */
 export function yieldKind() {
-  return qp('yield') === 'macro' ? 'macro' : 'micro';
+  const kind = qp('yield');
+
+  return kind === 'macro' || kind === 'frame' ? kind : 'micro';
 }
 
 /**
  * One turn of whichever queue {@link yieldKind} selects.
  *
- * @param {'micro' | 'macro'} kind
+ * @param {'micro' | 'macro' | 'frame'} kind
  */
 export function yieldTo(kind) {
+  if (kind === 'frame') return nextFrameTask();
+
   return kind === 'macro' ? nextMacrotask() : Promise.resolve();
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
index c1f7887..f105a71 100644
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ between `:start` and `:done`, and the tests assert:
 dbmon-with-chat is excluded: it runs forever off worker-driven timing,
 so there is no deterministic finite trace to compare.
 
+Frameworks whose scheduler has a frame-rate floor (marko: after the
+first write in a frame, further renders wait for the next animation
+frame) run the externally-paced specs with `yield=frame` instead of
+`yield=macro`: the same workload delivered one write per *frame*
+(a rAF and then a task), which leaves nothing to coalesce even at a
+frame-rate floor. Every trace assertion still applies to them.
+
 ## Running
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/tests/specs/conformance.spec.ts b/tests/specs/conformance.spec.ts
index d1eb7ab..64e13ae 100644
--- a/tests/specs/conformance.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/specs/conformance.spec.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ interface Trace {
 interface ConformanceSpec {
   app: string;
   query: string;
+  /**
+   * The query FRAME_THROTTLED frameworks run with: the same workload,
+   * delivered one write per frame instead of one per task. Absent on the
+   * self-advancing spec (incrementing-render-effect waits for each
+   * render, so a frame-floored framework already renders every state).
+   */
+  pacedQuery?: string;
   /** The exact sequence of page-text states the run must pass through */
   expectedStates: string[];
   /**
@@ -80,10 +87,26 @@ function range(start: number, end: number): number[] {
   return Array.from({ length: end - start }, (_, i) => start + i);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Frameworks whose scheduler has a frame-rate floor: the first write in a
+ * frame renders in a microtask, every later write waits for the next
+ * animation frame (marko's schedule() stays "scheduled" until a
+ * rAF-driven MessageChannel message resets it -- marko/src/dom/schedule.ts).
+ * One update per *task* still coalesces into one render per *frame*, so
+ * the task-paced queries cannot observe their per-write states. These
+ * frameworks run the externally-paced specs with `pacedQuery` instead:
+ * `yield=frame` delivers one write per frame (rAF + a task, see
+ * common/src/tests/utils.js nextFrameTask), which leaves nothing to
+ * coalesce even at a frame-rate floor -- and every trace assertion
+ * (exact states, zero element churn, the text-node budget) still applies.
+ */
+const FRAME_THROTTLED = new Set(['marko']);
+
 const SPECS: ConformanceSpec[] = [
   {
     app: 'one-item-many-updates',
     query: `?updates=${UPDATES}&percentRandomAwait=100&yield=macro`,
+    pacedQuery: `?updates=${UPDATES}&percentRandomAwait=100&yield=frame`,
     // the initial render already shows [0] before :start, and set(0)
     // re-renders the same text -- the first observable change is [1]
     expectedStates: range(1, UPDATES).map((i) => `[${i}]`),
@@ -92,6 +115,7 @@ const SPECS: ConformanceSpec[] = [
   {
     app: 'ten-k-items-one-time',
     query: `?items=${ITEMS}&updates=${ITEMS}&percentRandomAwait=100&yield=macro`,
+    pacedQuery: `?items=${ITEMS}&updates=${ITEMS}&percentRandomAwait=100&yield=frame`,
     // sequential updates: state k has items 0..k set, the rest untouched
     expectedStates: range(0, ITEMS).map((k) =>
       range(0, ITEMS)
@@ -103,6 +127,7 @@ const SPECS: ConformanceSpec[] = [
   {
     app: 'fan-out',
     query: `?consumers=${CONSUMERS}&updates=${UPDATES}&burstSize=1`,
+    pacedQuery: `?consumers=${CONSUMERS}&updates=${UPDATES}&burstSize=1&yield=frame`,
     // bursts of 1: nothing to coalesce, every value must reach every
     // consumer, and consumers must never tear (a state where they
     // disagree would not match)
@@ -214,8 +239,13 @@ async function runConformance(
 
     page.on('pageerror', (error) => errors.push(error.message));
 
+    const query =
+      FRAME_THROTTLED.has(framework) && spec.pacedQuery
+        ? spec.pacedQuery
+        : spec.query;
+
     await page.addInitScript(installTraceObserver);
-    await page.goto(`${server.url}/${spec.query}`);
+    await page.goto(`${server.url}/${query}`);
 
     await page.waitForFunction(
       () => performance.getEntriesByName(':done', 'mark').length > 0,