Background images in css are not getting cached

Issue

I have some react code that is rendering content dynamically via React.createElement. As such, css is applied via an object. Elements in that dynamic generation can have background image, pointing to a public aws S3 bucket.

It seems that every time my components re-render, the background images are being fetched again from S3. This is delaying the page render. I have S3 meta-data for Cache-Control set on all the objects . Here are request and response headers for background image load -

Response header -

Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800
Content-Length: 52532
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 05:57:32 GMT
ETag: "f29655808a5f80627d9ea7f44058a5e3"
Last-Modified: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 05:55:10 GMT
Server: AmazonS3
x-amz-meta-filetype: IMAGE

Request Header -

Accept: image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,hi;q=0.8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: keep-alive
Host:  <bucket-name>s3.amazonaws.com
Pragma: no-cache
Referer: https://<my-domain>.com/
sec-ch-ua: " Not;A Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="97", "Chromium";v="97"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
sec-ch-ua-platform: "Linux"
Sec-Fetch-Dest: image
Sec-Fetch-Mode: no-cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

I can see in Network tab that images are being loaded multiple times and it also shows data transfers being done everytime. What am I doing wrong here? Can someone please help finding the root cause. Thanks.

Solution

could it be a forgotten "disable cache" option selected in the network tab in the dev tools ? Because it seems the server responds with the correct type of cache headers.

Answered By - btargac