Is there any tool that can crawl a website and find out the total word count?

Hey all,

I have found a competitor that is ranking for quite a few easy keywords. I would like to find out the word count for each of his pages, so that I can sort it by SERP position, and then by word count.
That way I can focus on keywords that have low word count on the competitors site.

I haven't been able to find a tool like this yet. Does any know of one?

Thanks!

Go on Google. LOL

wordcounter.net
sitechecker.pro/website-word-counter

Synapses said:

wordcounter.net
sitechecker.pro/website-word-counter

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Nope, those sites either want me to paste the article in there, or they only show the word count on the page that I enter.

I would like to see the word count of each page (there are thousands of pages here)

I'm trying out if Screaming Frog can maybe help.

The Weglot Website Word Count Tool analyzes all your website's pages and counts how many words you have on them.
https://blog.weglot.com/

You might have to do this job manually, what I know is that you can extract all the links/urls on a blog or a website. Then you can visit the urls and analyze the content like word count as you want to.

If that's tiresome, you can hire a VA to do this job.

simple copy paste must do it too,

To do this, select all the words on that specific page, then click on Ctrl + c.

Open a google docs, or word doc, paste all that is selected by clicking on Ctrl + v

If you are on word, it will show you the word count at the bottom left.

If you are on google docs, hover over to tools tab, choose the second word count option and check the box in the pop up.

You can also click Ctrl + shift + C to access the pop up and press either the space bar, or check that box to see the word count.

You can automate this process easily on python

You can easily find such tools online but let me cut you off right here.

Most of them are completely worthless because they either undercount or overcount.

Your best bet would be to do the following:

First, get the sitemap of your competitor to see the list of posts they have.

The next step is to use a tool like Pasty on Google Chrome to load all those URLs.

Then you can use a tool like Count These Words.

It's a Chrome extension I use.

It's for you to have an accurate view of the word count.

Please understand that word count accuracy is crucial for what you're trying to do.

Quick advice on word count

Please understand that longer content does not necessarily mean it is better in the eyes of Google.

You have to do something else in addition to adding more words.

Your content should be comprehensive at the very least.

This means that somebody visiting your page will get all the information they could've gotten piecemeal from the top five results.

Don't just look at your competitors; look at the other results that show up for the keywords they rank for.

Also, your content should be better formatted so that the visitor only needs to scan the page to get to where they need to go.

This and updated information can go a long way in helping you dominate the keywords that you're targeting.

https://wordcounter.net/website-word-count
This may help!

blackbeans said:

You can easily find such tools online but let me cut you off right here.

Most of them are completely worthless because they either undercount or overcount.

Your best bet would be to do the following:

First, get the sitemap of your competitor to see the list of posts they have.

The next step is to use a tool like Pasty on Google Chrome to load all those URLs.

Then you can use a tool like Count These Words.

It's a Chrome extension I use.

It's for you to have an accurate view of the word count.

Please understand that word count accuracy is crucial for what you're trying to do.

Quick advice on word count

Please understand that longer content does not necessarily mean it is better in the eyes of Google.

You have to do something else in addition to adding more words.

Your content should be comprehensive at the very least.

This means that somebody visiting your page will get all the information they could've gotten piecemeal from the top five results.

Don't just look at your competitors; look at the other results that show up for the keywords they rank for.

Also, your content should be better formatted so that the visitor only needs to scan the page to get to where they need to go.

This and updated information can go a long way in helping you dominate the keywords that you're targeting.

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Thanks for taking the time to write an amazing response!

I agree, most of the tools that I tried are way off when estimating the word count.

What I did for now was to collect the top 35 pages according to ahrefs that seem to be bringing in the most traffic. I then went to each of these URLs and used a chrome extension to count the words.

There are certainly some gaps in the competitor's articles that I can fill, and now having a ballpark word count will help me manage my budget better.