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Word and Character Counter.
A counter that knows what the counts are for. Measures your text against the real ceilings on a title tag, a meta description, an X post, a LinkedIn headline, a Google Business post and an email subject line, all at once.
Counts update as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs entirely in your browser.
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What this tool measures
Counts the words and characters in a piece of text, then shows which of the fields it might be destined for it still fits inside.
A bare counter is a solved problem — the status bar of any editor does it. What is missing everywhere is the second half of the question. A title tag, a meta description, an X post, a LinkedIn headline, a Google Business Profile post and an email subject line all have different ceilings, several of them are not the number people think, and getting one wrong is invisible until the text is already published and cut in half.
How to use it
Paste or type. Everything updates as you go, and nothing leaves your browser — there is no server on this site for it to be sent to.
Read the bar for the field you are actually writing for and ignore the rest. Green means it fits. Amber means you are well short of the useful range, which is not an error but is usually free space you are not taking. Red means it will be cut.
How to read the result
The limits split into two kinds, and they behave completely differently. Some are hard — a Google Business Profile description over 750 characters is refused by the platform. Most are soft: the text is accepted in full and then truncated on display, so it looks fine where you typed it and wrong everywhere anyone sees it.
Two of them are not really character limits at all. A title tag is truncated on rendered pixel width, so 60 characters is a rule of thumb that a title full of wide letters breaks earlier than. And the blog and service page word counts are ranges rather than targets — there is no correct length for a page, only a length that matches how much the question needs.
The average sentence length under the counts is worth more attention than any of the totals. It is the single strongest predictor of whether a page gets read to the end.
What to do next
If a piece of text is over a limit, cut rather than compress. Removing a clause reads better than shortening every word in it, and a truncated sentence with the point removed is worse than a shorter one that keeps it.
If you are consistently landing short on descriptions and social copy, that is usually a briefing problem rather than a writing one. Nobody was told what the field was for, so they wrote a label instead of a sentence.
Questions people ask
How many characters can a title tag be?
There is no character limit. Google renders titles in a container about 600 pixels wide on desktop and cuts whatever does not fit, so a title of narrow letters runs longer than one of wide ones. Sixty characters is where most English titles hit that width, which is why the figure gets quoted as a rule.
Does word count affect rankings?
Not directly, and it never has. What correlates is coverage: pages that answer a question completely tend to be longer than pages that do not, so length shows up in every study as a proxy for something else. Padding a page to hit a number produces the length without the coverage, and does nothing.
Why does my LinkedIn post get cut so early?
The limit is 3,000 characters but the feed shows about 210 before a “see more”. Those are two different numbers doing two different jobs — the first is what you may write, the second is what decides whether anyone reads past the fold.
Is the reading time figure reliable?
It is 230 words a minute, which is a common average for silent reading of straightforward prose. Individual speeds vary by a factor of three, and technical material is slower. Treat it as a rough sense of scale rather than a promise.
Where to go from here
- Google SERP Snippet Preview — For a title or description, measure the real pixel width instead.
- Reading Level Checker — Length is one question. Whether it is readable is the other.
- Headline Analyzer — Score the headline you just counted.
The guide behind this tool
Built by GoDesign FZE, who write and ship page copy that converts.
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