Word & Character Counter

With real language-aware segmentation, not just spaces. Punctuation and emoji are not words, a decimal like 3.50 is one word, contractions like don't are one word, hyphenated compounds like follow-up count as two, and a URL or email address counts as one word. The same word model feeds every statistic on the page, including reading time and keyword density, so all the numbers reconcile. The full rules are in the "How counting works" note beside the stats.

Characters means characters as you perceive them, technically grapheme clusters. A family emoji, a flag or an accented letter counts as 1 even though JavaScript stores it as several code units. If you need the technical numbers, Detailed statistics shows code points, UTF-16 units and UTF-8 bytes separately, each under its real name.

It uses locale-aware sentence boundaries plus handling for common abbreviations, so "Dr. Smith paid $3.50. Really?" counts as 2 sentences, not 4. Decimals, initials like J. R. R., e.g., i.e., U.S. and domain names do not create false sentence breaks.

Yes. The X post meter uses the official twitter-text weighting rules instead of raw character count: every link counts as 23 characters regardless of its visible length, most emoji and CJK characters count as 2, and most Latin characters count as 1. When the weighted number differs from the plain character count, the meter tells you both.

No, and this tool does not pretend they are. Google truncates title links and snippets by available pixel width on each device, and states that meta descriptions have no fixed character limit. The meters show the typical safe ranges (50 to 60 and 120 to 160) as guidance and turn amber, not red, beyond them. For a truncation preview use the SERP Snippet Preview tool.

Nothing is uploaded; all analysis runs in your browser. Draft autosave is a visible toggle: when on, your draft is kept in this browser's local storage so a reload does not lose it, and "Delete saved draft" removes it completely. Turning autosave off also deletes the stored draft. Nothing ever syncs to a server.

There is no magic percentage. The old advice of keeping a keyword at 1 to 3 percent of total words is outdated: modern search engines understand topics semantically. Use the keyword density checker to catch accidental over-repetition and to confirm your page is actually about what you think it is about, not to hit an exact number.

Reading time uses 238 words per minute, the average adult silent reading speed found in a large 2019 meta-analysis of reading research. Speaking time uses 130 words per minute, a comfortable presentation pace. Both use the same word count as the headline number.

Long enough to answer the search intent fully and not a word more. Pages that rank for competitive topics are often 1,500 to 2,500 words, while thin 300-word posts rarely compete. Padding a post to hit a word count hurts just as much: word count is a byproduct of covering the topic, not a target. Set a word goal above to track your target as you write.