Website Word Counter

Count Words on Any Webpage — Free

Paste in a URL and get an instant word count for that page's visible text content — no need to copy and paste the whole thing by hand.

How to Count Words on a Webpage

Paste the URL of the page you want to check and click "Count Words." The page's visible text is pulled and counted, and the total word and character count appears within a few seconds.

What Gets Counted

This counts the readable text content of a page — paragraphs, headings, and similar visible copy — not navigation menus, hidden text, embedded scripts, or content that only appears after interacting with the page. For sites that build their content dynamically with JavaScript after the page loads, the count may come in lower than expected, since it reflects the page's underlying HTML rather than what eventually renders on screen.

Good Uses for This Tool

Checking whether a blog post or article meets a target word count, comparing content length across a few competing pages for SEO research, verifying how much text is actually on a page before editing it, or getting a quick sense of a page's length before deciding whether to read it in full.

Is It Actually Private?

The page you enter is fetched and counted on the fly — nothing about your search is stored, and no account or signup is required.