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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specifying "Cache-Control: no-cache" will cache in the browser. As a result, Weis recommended developers read the manual to confirm the Cache-Control mechanism executes the desired behavior. At the ...

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.

Some have raised concerns that this change could break promises to web developers who assume that the "Cache-control: no-store" header means the browser will not cache the webpage.

Google is also asking site owners to allow Google to cache your web pages. Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s ...