Website read progress

Display a read progress bar
What is Website read progress?
'Website Read Progress' is a Chrome extension offering a horizontal or circular reading progress bar option on any webpage. It not only measures the overall content length including comments and related content but also enhances the reading experience by giving you a sense of your reading progression. Improve your reading productivity, return to previous pages or your homepage using this innovative tool.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-09-15 due to malware
By: jalmazdin
Users: 5,774+
Rating: 5.00 (17)
Version: 1.3.0 (Last updated: 2022-07-20)
Creation date: 2020-12-23
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • *://*/*
  • storage
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
Size: 1.50M

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension gives the option of adding a horizontal or a circular reading progress bar for each website page or online article you come across.

The Website Read Progress extension measures the content length and considers various elements of a web article and post, including comments, related content, newsletter and more to give a correct estimation of the position of your overall reading progress and remaining content.

This useful chrome extension provides online readers with gradual feedback in terms of how far they’ve progressed in reading a particular page or a lengthy article.

As a result, the Website Read Progress extension enhances the overall reading experience by encouraging online readers to scroll through the entire lengthy article or website.

To display your Reading Progress Bar on any web page or post, simply click the extension icon and choose between the horizontal and circular reading progress bar.

The Website reading progress bar offers a fantastic way to encourage your reading productivity!

Most impressively, you can control its settings all from one place and display it on any website that you visit.

Click the extension icon. After selecting the preferred shape of your reading progress bar, choose between these progress completed buttons:

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Very useful for readers
  • Helpful tool for productivity
  • Allows users to gauge remaining content and estimate reading time
Cons
  • Issues with slower loading on large pages
  • Lack of customization options for progress bar
Most mentioned
  • Useful for reading web articles
  • Desire for customization options
  • Helps estimate reading time
User reviews
Very useful extension for readers. On huge pages loading slower, also I would like to change color of the progress bar and maybe thickness.
by Sergey Goncharov, 2023-07-17

If you read a lot of web articles in work or at home this is a very neat little add-on for productivity
by Lewys Cousins, 2021-07-13

Great extension, works like it should. Any way to let users change the color in the future? ;-)
by Jens Polomski, 2021-05-24
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Website read progress requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Website read progress is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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