Images cache time is just 2 days

Developers Images
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Hi,

It seems this problem is persisting and I am unable to fix it. I switched over from Image Resizing for a project to just Images, delivering the images from my own domain (/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/…)

When testing with Google PageSpeed now, it complains about the cache time being just 2 days. I can confirm after checking my self I see this:

cache-control: max-age=172800
cf-bgj: imgq:85,h2pri
cf-cache-status: HIT
cf-images: internal=ok/- q=0 n=17+0 c=0+43 v=2023.2.1 l=4223

This is extremely annoying because my browser cache time set in Cloudflare is 1 year.

Also, this will now break my performance score as it was quite high using Image Resizing before.

How can I control the cache time for Images? This is just annoying at this point.

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sorry to hear that you face this issue.

as of now only option is to use custom worker CF Images served with Custom Domain not affected by cache rules - #2 by asemiglazov

we only have global option configured to set cache-control to 2 days, nothing to override per account except using custom worker.

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Thanks… but this issue persists for months. That was the reason I did not use it before and I used Image Resizing instead. I just switched over like a fool now, edited a lot of code, etc…

Not a good look. Why on earth would you set a cache time of 2 days? And why would you even release a service where you cannot specify the cache for images?

It just doesn’t make any sense. Very disappointing.

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@Mecanik I will reach out privately, I think we can help.

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Use a Transform Rule to set the header.

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I absolutely agree with @Mecanik .
We use the Cloudflare Images Service, but have registered our domain somewhere else and therefore have no possibility to use the Transform Rule Workaround mentioned by @KianNH if I see it correctly…

And I don’t understand why the Cloudflare team is trying to solve the problem in a private chat if this problem is relevant to the general public…?

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I don’t know, but if I can get a “fix” I will certainly test. What concerns me is the why. Why would you have 2 days cache TTL on the images unless you plan to update the same image URL at some point?

I have been advertising Cloudflare Images services quite a lot and got onboard a lot of people, especially businesses. However this was with Image Resizing luckily.

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I’m happy to help, what’s browser cache TTL you need for your account?

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The Google Lighthouse recommendation for immutable static assets is one year or longer, so that means max-age=31536000 (Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy - Chrome Developers). But the account i am using here is not the account where we use the Cloudflare Image Service for our company.

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now it is possible to adjust Browser TTL (cache-control) per account or variant

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