Extend vs Route

Route is used by more websites in our catalog: 142 use Extend and 863 use Route.

Extend sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Extend: 37, Route: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Extend went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Route went from 0.13% to 0.10%. Extend is gaining ground faster in our index.

10 websites in our catalog use both Extend and Route.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.