Double API Calls

Looks like every time I do a GET API call, Bubble is sending the API request twice. I do 9 API calls on page load, and Bubble is sending 18.

I read somewhere that this is bubble trying to ‘speed up’ the API call by using the previous cached API call or something to that effect.

Am I being billed for both external API calls? If so, is there a way to request that some/all API calls are not ‘optimized’?

(I also read something about back end work flows but this is for the page load event.)