How to Count Words on Any Web Page Without Copy Pasting

The old way to count words on a web page: select all the text, copy it, open Google Docs or Word, paste it, and check the word count. Five steps to get a single number. And if the page has menus, footers, and sidebars, you're counting words you don't care about.

Word Counter gives you the word count of any web page with a single click. Click the extension icon, and it shows the total word count of the page content, excluding navigation, headers, footers, and other non-content elements.

This is essential for content marketers analyzing competitor article lengths, freelance writers checking if their published pieces match the agreed word count, students verifying they've met assignment requirements from online sources, and SEO professionals auditing content depth across a set of URLs.

Select specific text on the page and the extension counts just the selection. Need to know if a particular section is long enough? Highlight it and get an instant count.

It's one of those tools that does exactly one thing and does it perfectly. No accounts, no uploads, no waiting — just an instant word count for whatever you're reading.