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Introduction

URL Canonicalization , Core Enhancements, SEF, SEO & Metadata

Route 66 – The Ultimate SEO Upgrade for Joomla!

Take your Joomla website to the fast lane with Route 66, the all-in-one SEO powerhouse trusted by site owners worldwide. Whether you run a blog, news site, or online store, Route 66 gives you the tools pros use to dominate search results and deliver blazing-fast performance.

Why you’ll love Route 66:

  • AI-Powered SEO & Content Tools (PRO) – Instantly create and improve titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, and even full page copy with OpenAI or Anthropic. Save time. Boost rankings.
  • Smart Site Crawler – Scan your site for missing or duplicate metadata, slow pages, heavy HTML, and other SEO killers. Get clear, actionable fixes – no guesswork.
  • Yoast-Grade Insights – See SEO & readability scores right inside your Joomla editor. Optimize content as you write.
  • Perfect URLs Every Time – Create clean, search-friendly URLs with powerful dynamic patterns for articles, products, categories, and more.
  • More Visibility, More Clicks – Generate XML and Google News sitemaps (with images & videos) to get your content discovered faster.
  • Performance Boosts Built-In – Lazy-load images and videos, use lightweight video embeds, and optimize CSS to hit higher PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals scores.
  • Joomla-Native Convenience – Manage robots.txt, run crawls, and edit SEO data sitewide without leaving your admin panel.

Free or PRO – you choose:

  • Free: Core SEO tools, SEF URL patterns, basic crawler (30 pages), and essential sitemaps.
  • PRO: Unlimited crawling, AI content tools, CLI crawling, robots.txt history, extended component support, and more.

Ready to get ahead in search rankings?

Install Route 66 today – and watch your Joomla site climb the rankings while running faster than ever.

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All you need for the content SEO works



Posted on 05 November 2024
Functionality
I like the idea where every article has their own SEO detailed setup recommendations that really helps you as a beginner. How cool is that?
Ease of use
Simple and just working perfectly natural, a well thought process flow and just fit all my article SEO needs
Support
Documentation
I used this to: To make my article to be SEO rich and easy to be picked up by Google SERP naturally.

So far it does what it says it will do



Posted on 29 August 2024
Functionality
Route 66 so far does what it says it will do. The installation and setup up is very straightforward. It does not require a lot of tuning.
Ease of use
Ease of use is an area of improvement. Some of the functionality is not as intuitive as perhaps it could be to facilitate taking full use.
Support
No support has been utilized therefore. As a consequence there is a neutral ranking here but they do seem to provide support options.
Documentation
This is the area requiring most attention. There is documentation but It could use an overhaul with more explanation around configuration.
I used this to: Site analysis, seo, sitemaps, social media integrations, and site performance measurement. So far, this seems like a likely candidate for a pro upgraded service.

Чудове розширення для коротких посилань



Posted on 19 August 2024
Functionality
Чудовий, зручний функціонал. В моєму випадку достатньо безкоштовної версії.
Ease of use
Все інтуїтивно зрозуміло. Легко розібратись навіть без документації.
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Love that Yoast is part of Route 66



Posted on 18 April 2024
Functionality
The yoast portion of Route 66 works excellent. I'm very excited to have this.
Ease of use
So far this has been very easy to use. I'm looking forward to trying the rest of it.
Support
I've not had to contact support yet. With the ease of use, I'm not sure I'll have to.
Documentation
The documentation is brief but easy to follow. They also provide links to videos if you need them.
I used this to: a home builder's website. Currently I'm using the yoast features, the facebook feature, and the sitemap feature.

Does what it has to do



Posted on 14 November 2023
Functionality
it has more features than I need, i use only 10% of this extension.
Ease of use
Yeas, it is easy. For SEO there are patterns already on place :)
I used this to: I use it only for my blog what shows featured articles. Joomla shows there very ugly URL (and i dont know why). But Route 66 is solution for

Excellent for short url and SEO



Posted on 12 November 2023
Functionality
Choose the pattern for your url : mydomain-articlealias, add the category, the year, optimize , minimize css, js, excellent SEO guide
Ease of use
Very easy to use. Specify in the content plugin the pattern for your urls. In articles Use the SEO guide to adjust title, metadata, alias
Support
Very reactive support, the developper answers within 24 hours to questions in the helpdesk. Follows up Joomla evolutions
Documentation
Documentation is comprehensive and easy to use. It specifies the different parameters that can be used. It proposes tutorial videos
I used this to: I maintain the website of a small club. I use route 66 to have short and significant url, to have better SEO, better speed with optilmization and minification of CSS

A must have extension for me



Posted on 30 October 2023
Functionality
Rewrites the default Joomla article URL with a human readable SEO friendly URL instead of having to create menu items for all your articles.
Ease of use
Very easy to set up, the default options work well for me so I don't need to change anything. It's pretty obvious how to amend these.
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Rewriting the default URL Joomla produces for an article that's not in a menu.

Très bon support et extension pour avoir des URLs



Posted on 11 July 2022
Functionality
Essentiellement utilisé pour faire de belles urls, sans stockage dans la base de donnée, mais il y a d'autres fonctionnalités
Ease of use
Facile d'utilisation, il y a peu de paramètres à connaître d'ou son intérêt
Support
Rapide et efficace même pour la version gratuite ce qui est assez rare
Documentation
Elle est disponible en ligne pour tout le monde .elle est complète
I used this to: Différents sites associatifs dont j'ai besoin de contrôle les urls

Lack of supported files cause crash



Posted on 29 April 2020
Functionality
Basic installation is great extension but unfortunately the software fromRoute 66 does not support LESS files. Crashed my template
Ease of use
Once the installation problems are completed, it is good but to no avail as it crashed my site due unsupported LESS files
Support
Not supporting LESS files and not interested to support. Only through the Blog.
Documentation
Not accurate with poor installation instructions giving difficulty with initial accurate installation
I used this to: Setting up my site to be SEO friendly This is a good feature although time intensive on a large site

Eccellente - Consigliato sia come Prodotto che come Assistenza



Posted on 03 December 2019
Functionality
Fa esattamente quello che ci si aspetta. Risolve veramente i problemi segnalati da Pagespeed.
Ease of use
Piccola difficoltà nel trovare le funzioni. Dopo, non è affatto difficile da usare. E' importante mettere i plugin per ultimi in elenco.
Support
Eccezionale! Difficilmente ho trovato un supporto del genere. Consiglio Route 66 fosse solo per la sicurezza del Supporto.
Documentation
L'ho consultata poco ma è sufficientemente chiara. La suddivisione in blocchi permette una chiara comprensione delle funzioni e di cosa fann
I used this to: ottimizzare il punteggio di Pagespeed. L'incremento è stato notevolissimo, da 27-30 di media a 80-83 sul mobile, con ancora possibilità di miglioramento.
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Route 66

Version:
2.0.3
Developer:
Firecoders
Last updated:
Aug 11 2025
5 hours ago
Date added:
Jun 20 2016
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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