Word Count & Readability Checker

Word Count & Readability Checker fetches a page, strips out the HTML, and reports the word count, an estimated reading time, and a Flesch Reading Ease score describing how easy the writing is to follow.

Reach for this when editing content and wanting an objective sense of its length and reading difficulty, or when comparing a draft against a target reading level for its intended audience.

This counts the visible text in the page body as fetched, including navigation and footer text if the page does not separate that from the main content. The readability score is a standard formula based on sentence and word length, not a judgment of how good the writing actually is.