I come across similar doubts. This is what I understood from the extensive content on the Internet.
Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong or add more information if I missed something.
1) <staticContent><clientCache> cached only on the client side.
, .
location="ServerAndClient".
policy , kernelCachePolicy .
2). StaticContent .
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3) staticContent , location web.config, staticcontent- .
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<location path="Content/common/images">
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<clientCache cacheControlCustom="public" cacheControlMaxAge="86400" cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge"/>
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</location>
"//".
staticContent web.config , .
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, web.config, .
4) StaticContent IIS, HTTP-

IIS, OutputCaching.
