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Words
Tokens separated by whitespace. A hyphenated compound like "well-known" counts as one word.
Characters
Every character including spaces, punctuation, and newlines. What APIs and tweet limits count.
No spaces
Characters excluding any whitespace. Useful for SMS and some publishing word-count limits.
Sentences
Blocks ending with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark followed by whitespace.
Paragraphs
Blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines. Single-line text counts as one paragraph.
Reading time
Estimated at 200 words per minute. The average adult silent reading speed for non-fiction.
Keyword density is the percentage of times a specific word appears relative to all non-stop-word tokens. Stop words (a, the, and, in, on…) are excluded because they carry no topical signal. A density of 5% means the word appears 5 times for every 100 content words. SEO guidelines generally recommend staying below 2–3% for any single keyword to avoid over-optimisation penalties. Writers use this tool to spot unintentional word repetition in essays and long-form content.
| Content type | Typical range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|
| Social media caption | 50-280 chars | Under 1 min |
| Meta description | Under 155 chars | Under 1 min |
| Short blog post | 500-800 words | 2.5-4 min |
| Standard blog post | 1,000-1,500 words | 5-7.5 min |
| In-depth SEO article | 1,500-2,500 words | 7.5-12.5 min |
| Long-form guide | 3,000-5,000 words | 15-25 min |
It depends on the goal. A short news post or listicle works at 500-800 words. A standard blog post is typically 1,000-1,500 words. In-depth SEO content targeting competitive keywords tends to perform better at 1,500-2,500 words because it covers the topic more completely. Long-form guides and pillar pages often run 3,000-5,000 words.
Yes. The Characters stat counts every character including spaces, punctuation, and line breaks, which matches what most platforms count. Twitter limits posts to 280 characters. LinkedIn posts can be up to 3,000 characters. Meta descriptions should be under 155 characters. Paste your text and check the Characters count directly.
No. The counter splits on whitespace, so punctuation attached to a word such as "hello," or "world." counts as part of that word. Standalone punctuation characters separated by spaces would count as words, which matches most style guide definitions.
200 words per minute, which is the commonly cited average for adult silent reading of non-fiction prose. Academic papers often use 250 wpm, and fiction is sometimes estimated at 275 wpm. Adjust your expectations by 25% depending on content complexity.
No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded to any server. The word counter runs a few regex operations on your text locally and displays the results.
Those are stop words, extremely common function words that carry no topical meaning. The keyword density table excludes them because their high frequency would drown out the meaningful content words you actually want to track.
SEO best practices suggest keeping any single keyword below 2 to 3% density. Above that, search engines may interpret it as keyword stuffing and apply ranking penalties. More importantly, high density usually makes prose feel unnatural to human readers, which ultimately hurts engagement and conversions.
Characters counts every single character in the text including letters, numbers, punctuation, spaces, and line breaks. Characters (no spaces) removes all whitespace before counting. Some publishing platforms and APIs count without spaces. SMS messages, for instance, are limited by character slots regardless of whitespace.
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