Introduction

Facebook integration, URL Canonicalization , Core Enhancements, SEF, SEO & Metadata

Beautiful SEF URLs, SEO content analysis by Yoast, Google Lighthouse/PageSpeed optimization, Facebook Instant Articles and XML Sitemaps for Joomla!



Flexible SEF URLs definition using patterns

Route 66 allows you to define your site SEF URLs using patterns and not be restricted by limited URL options! Patterns can include any URL friendly character along with some tokens for generating dynamic variables ( like the article's date for example ). Here are some examples of URL patterns you can use in Route 66:

  • blog/{articleYear}/{articleMonth}/{articleAlias}
  • {categoryAlias}/{articleAlias}
  • {articleAlias}
  • page-{articleId}
  • {categoryPath}/{articleAlias}

It's that simple to add SEF URLs to your site with Route 66. Check out the documentation to see a list of all available tokens for the extensions that Route 66 supports. Last but not least, Route 66 allows you to define different pattern per language when multiple languages are enabled to your site.

SEO Content Analysis Powered by Yoast

Route 66 can analyze your site's content and provide suggestions for improving the SEO score of individual articles right into the article edit form! The SEO analysis is powered by the famous Yoast SEO engine.

Exceptional performance

Unlike bulky SEF extensions that can store thousands of URLs to your site's database, Route 66 offers dynamic and high performance URL generation. In short, Route 66 will not impact your website’s performance.

Duplicate URLs handling - Canonical Links

If Route 66 detects any duplicate URLs it will redirect to the canonical URL automatically. Let's say for example that you have an article with ID 9 and alias "have-a-nice-day" . Let's also assume that you have set up Route 66 using the pattern story/{articleAlias}. The generated URL will be story/have-a-nice-day . URLs like the following which lead to the same article will get redirected to story/have-a-nice-day:

  • index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9:have-a-nice-day
  • component/content/article/9-have-a-nice-day
  • menu-alias/article/9-have-a-nice-day

For optimal SEO, Route 66 automatically adds the canonical url to the page header. This is especially important when pages utilize query and/or anchor variables appended to the URL (story/have-a-nice-day?modal=welcome ).

Route 66 SEF URLs are implemented for the core Joomla! content extensions ( articles, categories and tags ).

Google Lighthouse/PageSpeed Optimization

Route 66 now can optimize your site to achieve a high score at Google Lighthouse/PageSpeed! Route 66 follows the Google Lighthouse/PageSpeed recommendations to make your Joomla site get ranked high by Google. Since version 1.7.0 Route 66 can lazy load images and iframes of your Joomla site!

Facebook Instant Articles

Route 66 now supports Facebook Instant Articles! It allows you to generate a feed of Facebook Instant Articles based on your site's content. You can also filter the feed articles based on categories. Finally, Route 66 comes with built-in integration for Google Analytics and Google DFP!

XML and Google News Sitemaps

Make it easier for Google and other search engines to discover your site content with XML sitemaps. Route 66 can generate those sitemaps for you! It allows you to filter the sitemap content based on categories. The sitemap can include entries from Joomla! articles and Menu items.

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
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
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.
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
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
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.
Functionality
Easy. It does what it says. Although until now, I have not gone into much depth in its handling and all the options that it does.
Ease of use
So far, the utility and application with this extension is fine.
Support
The extension website has a lot of documentation and the blog is very acceptable. thanks to that, I was able to locate this extension
Documentation
It is observed that it has a good and simple documentation. Although I have not reviewed it much yet. But it looks good.
I used this to: I use it to apply SEO techniques on my website in my website based in Joomla version 3.9.5. It has similar features to a good Wordpress plugin that I use in other sites.

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Posted on 12 October 2018
Functionality
It does what expected, very useful the SEO functionality.
Ease of use
Its easy to use but in certain case it need a bit of more documentation
Support
Support in the forum, i asked support and i received a fast reply, also with e-mail and with a patch to solve an issue with a sitemap.
Documentation
I would to see a bit more documentation
I used this to: My personal website: https://www.walterperdan.com
Functionality
I got exactly what I wanted - to be able to consistently route to the articles.
Ease of use
I'm still new to this, but I think I understand how to use Route 66.
Support
After installing it, I run into some problems, but help desk support was quick and thorough.
Documentation
There might be some more documentation, but overall I was satisfied with the amount of it.
I used this to: I couldn't set basic Joomla to use an url system that fits my needs - I wanted to base it on the category alias, and then the article alias, so all of my articles would be accessible like that, and not seemingly randomly, based on their place in the menu system. Route66 does that
Functionality
brilliant
Ease of use
very simple
Support
i have not taken support
Documentation
pretty good
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Route 66

Version:
1.9.10
Developer:
Firecoders
Last updated:
Oct 20 2023
4 months ago
Date added:
Jun 20 2016
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 (b/c plugin)
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