Nginx has a certain max speed for serving static content in a stress test (e.g. ab). That speed is the same even if the URL is poorly chosen. What django-static provides is a guarantee that the names are never poorly chosen.
Also, when the expires headers are set to expire in 2037 the browser will certainly never attempt to try to download it again unless the person running the browser hits the Shift+Refresh which tells the browser to ignore its own cache memory and go back to the server.
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Nginx has a certain max speed for serving static content in a stress test (e.g. ab). That speed is the same even if the URL is poorly chosen. What django-static provides is a guarantee that the names are never poorly chosen.
Also, when the expires headers are set to expire in 2037 the browser will certainly never attempt to try to download it again unless the person running the browser hits the Shift+Refresh which tells the browser to ignore its own cache memory and go back to the server.
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Are there any tests before using django-static and after?