Word & Character Counter

Word counting splits text on whitespace boundaries and filters out empty tokens, giving an accurate count regardless of multiple spaces or line breaks. Character counting iterates over the string and produces two values: total characters (including punctuation, spaces, and line breaks) and characters excluding whitespace. Sentence counting uses punctuation detection (periods, exclamation marks, question marks) with handling for abbreviations like "Dr." or "e.g." that should not trigger false sentence boundaries.

Reading time divides the total word count by 238 words per minute, the median reading speed for adults established by a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies. Speaking time uses 150 WPM, which matches the pace of professional narrators and presenters. Both figures are shown in minutes and seconds for precision.

Keyword frequency analysis tokenizes the text, normalizes case, strips common stopwords (a, the, and, is, etc.), and ranks the remaining terms by occurrence count. This gives a quick signal for whether a key topic term appears at an appropriate frequency relative to the document length without requiring a full SEO platform.