Seems like the favicon is not being loaded at all on the deployed website. The screenshot below shows the favicon being loaded in the local build but is missing on the deployed build.
In terms of statics I followed the instructions from @lubien from a separate thread and the statics section is currently as follows:
[[statics]]
guest_path = "/usr/app/.next/"
url_prefix = "/static"
Might public/favicon.ico not be picked up by nextjs and built into the .next directory? But in that case the local build shouldn’t show the favicon but it does correctly.