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Aero is the caching and performance optimization plugin pre-installed on every WP Stratos site. It accelerates your WordPress site by serving cached HTML pages to anonymous visitors, converting images to WebP, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and rewriting static asset URLs to deliver through a CDN of your choice — all from a single, unified settings panel inside your WordPress dashboard.

What Aero Does

Page Caching

Serves fully cached HTML pages to anonymous visitors, reducing server load and dramatically improving load times across your site.

Image Optimization

Converts uploaded images to WebP format using lossy or lossless compression, and lazy-loads images so they only render when scrolled into view.

Minification & Deferral

Strips whitespace from CSS and JavaScript files and optionally defers non-essential JS so pages render faster for your visitors.

CDN Integration

Rewrites image, CSS, and JS URLs to use your own CDN hostname, delivering static assets from edge locations closest to each visitor.
Aero is pre-installed on all WP Stratos sites. If you deactivate it, it will be automatically reactivated on the next plugin update.

Getting Started

Aero works with sensible defaults out of the box — page caching and browser caching are enabled automatically, so your site is already faster the moment it launches. Most sites don’t need any changes to the default configuration. If you want to fine-tune caching rules or exclusions, see the Caching page. To enable image optimization, minification, or JS deferral, see the Optimization page.

Accessing Aero

Open your WordPress Admin dashboard and click Aero in the left sidebar. From there you can navigate between the Cache, Optimization, Images, CDN, and Database sections using the submenu tabs. For a faster cache purge without navigating into settings, use the Purge Cache shortcut in the WP admin bar at the top of every admin page. This immediately clears all cached pages and is the quickest way to push content changes live to your visitors.