Latest, 17 Oct 2026:248 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 16 months
Latest, 17 Oct 2026:3 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Redirect - URL Rewrite
URL Redirect is a lightweight browser extension that gives you fine-grained, rule-based control over where every link and navigation request actually lands. Instead of passively accepting the web’s ever-growing maze of tracking hops, vanity domains, and staging URLs, you can declare your own mapping—“if a URL matches X, seamlessly open Y instead”—and the browser will enforce it instantly inside its network stack.
Real-world scenarios you’ll wish you’d solved sooner
Privacy front-ends at scale. One rule blocks a dozen trackers by sending any Reddit URL to libreddit. Another negates YouTube’s autoplay by hopping over to an Invidious instance. The difference in CPU load on low-end Chromebooks is startling.
Speed-up link previews. Replace every https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=* with a text-only reader view to load articles instantly on a metered connection.
Nail-free micro-blocking. Rather than bulkier ad blockers, a single wildcard rule can sinkhole the half-dozen redirect domains used by your region’s top ad network.
Growth
Window
Users
Change
Ratings
Rating
7 days
+26
+11.7%
0
0.00
30 days
−2
−0.8%
0
0.00
6 months
+42
+20.4%
0
−1.33
1 year
+152
+158.3%
+2
−4.00
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where Redirect - URL Rewrite appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change