This text analysis tool gives you more than a simple word counter. Paste any article, prompt, transcript, product description, or draft to measure words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, average sentence length, reading time, and speaking time instantly.
Use it when you need quick structural feedback before publishing, sending, or reusing text. It is useful for SEO reviews, script timing, UX writing, editing, prompt analysis, and checking whether a draft feels heavier or lighter than intended.
The value is speed and clarity. Instead of guessing whether a page is too dense or a script is too long, you get live metrics as you type or paste.
Everything runs locally in your browser, so you can analyze internal drafts, customer text, transcripts, or unpublished content without sending it to a remote service.
If you also need to clean pasted text before analysis, start with Remove Line Breaks. If counts look strange because of accents or hidden characters, read the Unicode normalization guide for combining-mark edge cases.
How to analyze text
- Paste or type your content into the text area.
- Review the live metrics for words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and speaking time.
- Use the numbers to tighten structure, adjust length, or compare versions of the same text.
Example
This is a simple sentence.Words: 5, Characters: 26, Reading Time: ~1 sec.Understanding Readability Metrics
Readability formulas estimate how difficult a text is to understand based on measurable features like word length and sentence length. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level maps text to a U.S. school grade: a score of 8 means an eighth grader should comprehend it. The formula weighs average sentence length and average syllables per word. Longer sentences and polysyllabic words push the grade higher.
The Gunning Fog Index takes a similar approach but counts complex words, defined as words with three or more syllables, excluding common suffixes. A Fog score of 12 means the text requires roughly 12 years of formal education.
For web content and SEO writing, targeting a Flesch-Kincaid grade between 6 and 8 is standard practice. Content at this level reaches the broadest audience without oversimplifying technical subjects. Academic papers naturally score higher, often between 12 and 16, which is appropriate for their audience but problematic if the same text appears on a public-facing landing page.
Using Text Analysis for SEO Content Auditing
Search engines evaluate content quality through signals that correlate with the metrics this tool provides. Word count indicates depth of coverage. Pages competing for informational queries typically need 800 to 2000 words to rank, though the ideal length depends on the topic and competition.
Sentence length affects both readability and engagement. Research on web reading behavior shows that sentences averaging 15 to 20 words maintain reader attention. Paragraphs longer than 3 to 4 sentences create visual walls of text that increase bounce rates on mobile devices.
Reading time estimates help set user expectations. Many publishers display estimated reading time in article headers, which has been shown to increase engagement when readers know a piece will take 5 minutes rather than 20. Speaking time matters for podcast scripts and video narration where you need to hit specific duration targets.
By running your content through text analysis before publication, you can catch structural issues that hurt both user experience and search performance: paragraphs that are too dense, sentences that are too complex, or articles that are too thin to compete.