How wordy is your website?

Paste an address and Word counts the readable text the page sends back — headings, paragraphs, navigation, footer, all of it.

Counts this page, not the entire website.

Homepage leaderboard

Homepages only, and only sites whose owners opted in after a scan. One entry per domain, ranked by the word count this server measured.

No one has opted in yet. Count a homepage above and tick the box to be the first.

Word fetches the page on the server and counts the text in the HTML it receives.

Counted: readable text anywhere in the page body, including navigation and footer text.
Skipped: scripts, styles, HTML markup and comments, SVG internals, <template> content, and elements explicitly hidden with hidden, aria-hidden or an inline display: none.
Words are runs of letters or numbers, which may hold apostrophes or hyphens inside them — don't and state-of-the-art each count once. Punctuation and symbols are not words. The same rule produced the historical benchmark, so the two numbers are always comparable.
Characters are counted after entities are decoded and runs of whitespace are collapsed to a single space. Spaces count. For languages written without spaces, the character count is the more useful number.
Word reads the HTML the server returns and does not run the page's JavaScript, so text a page loads afterwards in the browser isn't included.