Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google ...

The Cache-Control general-header has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. The cache-control general-header "field is used to specify directives for caching mechanisms in both ...

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again ...

Google to ignore the "no-store" header for the bfcache Google proposes that webpages should be stored in the BFCache even when the "Cache-control: no-store" header is present on HTTPS pages.

Try to research this only returns results about Safari not respecting response Cache-Control headers. Shift-clicking Reload and Shift-Command-R do generate "Cache-Control: no-cache" in FireFox.

Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google ...