Online word count bulk tool.
Use the word count tool to check the number of words used inside the body of a web page. Submit multiple URLs and the tool will automatically extract all the text / content inside the HTML body tag for every single page.
Why should I use the word count tool?
Based on word count you’re not able to determine the quality of the content, but it gives you a good impression of the textual quantity. Use this tool to find thin / shallow content pages, based on word count. The output of the tool helps you to decide if you have to improve your content. Important web pages should contain enough textual content to target multiple keywords, keyword variations and long tail search terms. You can also check the percentage of anchor text words found on a page. If this number is close to 100% you have a page containing only links.
Word Count API + Google sheets
Discover how to use the SEO Review Tools Word Count API together with Google sheets.
Metrics
The following metrics are returned after performing a word count check.
- Total word count.
- Corrected word count (Total word count – Anchor text word count).
- Anchor text word count.
- Percentage of anchor text words.
Filters
After extracting the content filters are used to remove: HTML markup, Symbols, Single letter words, Punctuation, Spaces.
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Tool limitations
- This tool isn’t able to determine content quality or relevancy.
- Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot of words to cover a subject. Don’t just add words to generate more content.
- The corrected word count number is set at 250+ words. This doesn’t mean writing 249 words is wrong and 250 words is perfect.
Relevant tools
- Use the Page Authority checker to determine the importance of a page
- Use the Keyword Suggestion Tool to generate relevant keyword ideas.
Updates:
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Does it count other text like sidebar and related posts or only the content part?
Hi,
This tool is designed to extract the content from all paragraph tags found on a page. So depending on your markup it might include comments and related posts. But it excludes (in most cases) sidebar and other navigational markup.
Update:
The Bulk Web page Word Count checker now also returns the average numbers:
I love this tool and have a quick question. What is the URL limit per day? Thanks!
Hi, the limit is 18 runs per tool per day.
So in this case you can check 10 URLs per run / check allowing you to check 180 URLs per day.
Cheers,
Jasja
Is there a way of getting more searches per day? If so, how?
Hi Mick,
For now this is, unfortunately, not possible ;-)
What is the anchor text? As in, what do you mean by that?
I’m only familiar with the term “anchor text” as meaning: the text that appears highlighted in a hypertext link and that can be clicked to open the target web page.
Surely this is something else, though, right?
Hi Dan,
I think we’re talking about the same “Anchor text” here ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text
can this tool count words from all pages within a site or pages below a directory ?
Hi Lee,
This tool will only check the URLs you enter. It’s not designed to perform full or partially website crawl.
I’m getting a “No valid URL submitted” no matter what combination of http:// and www. I use, I always get the same message.
Hi Jan,
Just did a test with the URL from your email address (I’m assuming this is the URL you’re trying to check) and the tool analysed the page without any problems.
So please give the tool another try..
Cheers
Hello,
I would like to count the words from our website to know how much would it cost to translate it from english to french. Can you tell me how can i do this with your software? I can see that it counts the body of a page..
Thanks!
Hi Gloria,
For now you have to enter all the URLs manually, but you can run them in batches of 10 at the time.
Hope this helps you out.
Cheers!
Is there a way for the word counter to give me not only the number of words but also the most common keywords as well?
Thanks!
Hi Pedro,
Great suggestion, I’ve added it to my (never ending) to-do-list ;-)
Thanks!
Great tool. Would be cool if you could paste in some code or upload a HTML file.
-Matthew
Hi Matthew,
Great suggestions, I’ve added both to my to-do-list.
Thanks!
Really awesome tool, unfortunately i have used all of my credit limit today ahaha. Definitely coming back tomorrow though to finish it off. Plus with this tool you get to check the most amount of webpages I’ve check 300 in total!
Using bulk web page word counter reurns 404 error on site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting
Hey Wayne,
Please try again. I just did some minor updates and the problem should be solved.
Love the tool so far… quickly becoming one of my core audit pieces.. so thank you!
One follow up question:
I noticed you mentioned the https certificate issue in early april. Looks like as of today that problem is still happening in some cases. Any idea on when there might be a fix for that?
Hey Darryl,
Great to get feedback from a regular user!
At the moment I haven’t received a specific date. But I’ll post an update as soon as possible.
Hey Darryl,
My hosting provider has solved the problem! So the tool should work like a charm ;-)
Hi there,
I have tried using the word counter but it does not work. I have compared it to one or two other word counters out there and it is giving me the wrong word count.
Hi Hilltop,
Don’t be too quick to judge the results returned by this tool..
Some reasons why the data from other tools aren’t corresponding with the results from this word count checker:
The filter is the most common reason why you get different results compared to other tools.
Using these filters to calculate the word count numbers you get the most meaningful results to measure content quantity.
Update (05/06/2015):
Thanks to Emily, Ben and others,
I was able to solve a common problem which occurred when the provided input didn’t matched the expected input. The tool is now able to detect these problems and give a nice response so you know which URL you should re-enter.
New warning message:
Warning: unable to process domain.com
(Please check if you entered this URL correctly, without typo’s and including http:// or https:// …)
After solving this problem another problem has caught my attention caused by https servers. This has probably something to do with the server set-up because when testing these domains locally the script didn’t encounter any problems.
(I’m currently looking into this, if you have suggestions just let me know ;-)
Just found out my server doesn’t supported some specific https certificates and contacted my hosting provider.
They will fix this problem somewhere this month…