No. of words on a website

tuisginideach

Complete nontechie here ... is there any way of estimating the number of words on a website (similar to the way you can go into 'show all properties' on a Powerpoint and get a word count)?
Thanks

practice

This might work.
https://wordcounter.net/website-word-count

tuisginideach

Thanks practice - I have tried a few I found online but still running into problems e.g. The 'Contact Us' page I am looking at has 23 words as far as I can see, but the counter you suggested gives it 153 words!

yoyo

Would an option be to copy all the website text into a Word document, then use the Word inbuilt calculator? Certainly not elegant, but will offer flexibility i.e: no need to copy menu names etc.

Nick

tuisginideach

Thanks YOYO - yes that's what I have done but I thought there was surely a more efficient way!

syklops

tuisginideach wrote: »

Thanks YOYO - yes that's what I have done but I thought there was surely a more efficient way!

On Linux(or Mac) there is a more efficient way. In a shell just type:

curl address-of-site | wc -w

If you want to PM me the site I can do it for you?

tuisginideach

Thanks so muck syklops - I will do so straight away. I sometimes wonder whether my PMs arrive so if you don't hear from me, pls revert!

maki

syklops wrote: »

On Linux(or Mac) there is a more efficient way. In a shell just type:

curl address-of-site | wc -w

If you want to PM me the site I can do it for you?

While this will count all words, it'll also count all HTML tags and script code. You'd need to strip all of them out if you want the actual word count.

You could also try:

lynx -dump address.com

But it won't get you an exact word count since each image will be treated as a word.

syklops

Ive sent the OP a link to an SEO tool which matches rendered words, not just raw HTML.

tuisginideach

Thanks syklops - wow, there's a huge discrepancy between what I counted 'manually' 22000+ words and what your device suggests 7000+ words - I'll have to sit down and examine it in detail later - thanks for the help!