Free word counter
Paste text below, or drop in a URL to count the words on any web page. Get word count, character count, estimated reading time, and the page's headings laid out cleanly. No signup, no credit card.
Enter text to count, or paste a URL to read a page.
What this counts
Word count, character count, estimated reading time, and the detected headings on the page. For a pasted URL it uses Fastcrawl's rendering engine, so JavaScript pages return their real content — not an empty shell.
Read pages at scale
Fastcrawl's scrape API returns clean markdown from any URL. Pair it with theword_count in the JSON output and you can analyze thousands of pages. Free tier: 2,000 credits, no card.