How to Check Word Count of a Website Article Quickly

If you work in content marketing or SEO, you regularly need to know how long published articles are. Maybe you're benchmarking competitor content length, auditing your own published articles, or checking if a freelancer hit the target word count.

The manual process — copy, paste into a word processor, check count — is tedious when you're analyzing dozens of articles. Word Counter reduces this to a single click per article. Open the page, click the extension, get the number.

For competitive analysis, this lets you quickly survey the top 10 results for any keyword and understand what content length is ranking. If the top results are all 2,000+ words and your article is 500 words, you know you need more depth. If they're all around 800 words, a 3,000-word piece might be overkill.

Word Counter also helps with content audits. Open each page on your site, check the count, and log it in your spreadsheet. Pages with thin content become immediately obvious.

Fast, simple, and saves content professionals hours of tedious copy-paste work every week.