Route 66 for Joomla

Supercharge your Joomla site with SEO tools powered by AI, smart crawling, beautiful SEF URLs, metadata optimization, performance enhancements, XML sitemaps, and more — all in one powerful extension. Requires Joomla 5.3 and PHP 8.2.

Unlock the power of AI to create better metadata and content — faster. Route 66 PRO includes a suite of built-in tools to help you write engaging titles, descriptions, and even page content with ease.

• Built in AI Tools – Generate titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, or improve content with tools like "Continue Writing", "Summarize" and "Rewrite".
• Custom AI Tools – Create your own tools with custom prompts tailored to your workflow!

AI Tools are only available in the PRO version. Requires an API key from OpenAI or Anthropic. Usage fees may apply.

Crawl your website to detect common SEO issues — like missing titles, duplicate meta descriptions, or slow-loading pages. Route 66 gives you a clear, searchable report so you can fix problems fast.

• SEO Issue Detection – Get alerts for missing/duplicate metadata, oversized pages, slow load times, and more.
• Crawl Any Extension – Works across your entire site, not just core Joomla content.
• Custom Filters & Search – Find exactly what needs fixing with filters for specific SEO issues, response codes, SEO/readability scores, and more.

Free version crawls up to 30 pages. Unlimited crawling available in the PRO version.

Route 66 makes metadata editing flexible and efficient with two seamless ways to manage SEO and social metadata:

• In-Form Editing – Edit metadata directly within the content editing form of supported Joomla extensions.
• Crawler-Based Editing – View and edit metadata from the crawled pages list. This unified interface works with content from any Joomla extension, making it ideal for large-scale SEO reviews.

Free version is limited to 30 crawled pages. In-Form Editing works with Joomla articles and categories in free version while PRO version expands support to VirtueMart, HikaShop, and Eshop.

Route 66 integrates professional-grade SEO and readability checks into your workflow using the trusted Yoast analysis engine. You can analyze content in two powerful ways:

• In-Form Analysis – Get real-time SEO and readability feedback while editing content in supported Joomla extensions. Just enter your focus keyphrase to receive actionable insights.
• Crawler-Based Analysis – Analyze SEO and readability directly from the crawled pages view. Just select a page, enter your focus keyphrase, and get real-time feedback. Works with content from any Joomla extension.

With Yoast technology built into both editing and crawling workflows, Route 66 helps you ensure every page on your site is SEO-ready and easy to read.

Free version is limited to 30 crawled pages. In-Form Analysis works with Joomla articles and categories in free version while PRO version expands support to VirtueMart, HikaShop, and Eshop.

Take full control of your Joomla URLs with Route 66’s flexible pattern-based system. Unlike other SEO extensions that offer rigid options, Route 66 lets you define clean, meaningful SEF URLs using dynamic tokens like article date, ID, category path, alias, and more.

Create URLs that match your site structure, improve SEO, and enhance user experience — without writing a single line of code. Examples of supported patterns:

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

Free version supports custom URLs for Joomla content. PRO version expands support to Virtuemart, HikaShop, eShop and JoomCCK.

Help Google and other search engines discover your content faster with fully automated XML sitemaps — including support for Google News.

Route 66 allows you to easily create and manage multiple sitemaps. Choose between standard and Google News sitemap types, and optionally include images and videos. You can also filter which content appears in each sitemap based on selected categories.

Each sitemap is fully configurable and follows all modern SEO best practices, giving your Joomla site better visibility across search engines.

Free version supports sitemaps for Joomla content. PRO version expands support to Virtuemart, HikaShop, eShop and JoomCCK.

Speed up your Joomla site and achieve higher scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse — directly through Route 66.

Route 66 includes a set of powerful optimizations that improve both user experience and SEO by following Google’s performance best practices:

• Lazy load images and iframes to defer offscreen content.
• Replace YouTube and Vimeo iframes with lightweight facades that load only when users interact
• Inline and minify CSS for faster rendering.

These features reduce load time, save bandwidth, and improve your Core Web Vitals — all of which help your site rank better in search engines.

No need to access your server or file manager. Route 66 lets you edit the robots.txt file directly from the Joomla backend.

Quickly block or allow specific bots, folders, or files — whether you’re troubleshooting indexing issues or fine-tuning crawl control. One less reason to leave your site’s admin panel.

PRO version bonus: Every change is tracked with version history, so you can view or restore previous robots.txt edits anytime.