Django-Purls is the simplest way to enable parallelized download of static content on your site. Adding parallelize downloads to your pages may increase response times by 30%.
See http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/04/11/performance-research-part-4/ for a deeper analysis.
Django-Purls maps static content URLs to one of the configured servers in the PURL_SERVERS settings. Django-Purls uses a consistent hashing algorithm allowing you to add or remove servers without completely re-shuffling all URL mappings and still utilize browser cache.
Supports Python 2.5 or later
$ easy_install django-purls
1. Wrap your static content (ex. images) in the purl template tag.
{% load purl_tags %}
{% for image in image_list %}
<img src="{% purl image.thumbnail_url %}" />
{% endfor %}
2. Install Djagno app and tell Django-Purls about your asset servers
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'purls',
)
PURL_SERVERS = {
# rewrite all URLs using the purl template tag to one of the following
# servers
'default': ('assets0.example.com', 'assets1.example.com',
'assets2.example.com'),
}