Text Statistics
TextCount characters, words, lines, bytes and estimate reading time with sentence analysis to gauge content length and overall readability at a single glance.
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About Text Statistics
Whether you are drafting an article, filling a length-limited form, or sizing up a translation job, you need to know exactly how many characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs your text contains. This tool counts all of these live in your browser, distinguishing characters with and without spaces, splitting words on whitespace, and estimating reading time. For example, paste a 300-word passage and get characters, words, lines, sentences and average word length at once. These numbers answer real constraints: API field limits and database varchar capacity are often enforced in bytes rather than characters - a single CJK character is three bytes in UTF-8 versus one byte for ASCII, so relying on a character count alone can be misleading when you size columns or trim input. The tool also breaks out Chinese character counts for mixed CJK/English text and distinguishes visible versus whitespace characters. Everything is computed character by character locally, with no caching or upload, so drafts, key fragments, or internal logs stay on your device. Counts refresh instantly as you type, making it a lightweight pre-publish check that helps you avoid "I thought it was long enough" truncation incidents.
How to Use
- Open the Text Statistics tool
- Paste the text to process
- Adjust the output options as needed
- Click the Process button; results appear in real time
- Copy or export the result
Use Cases
- Social limits — Check tweets and bios against platform character caps to avoid truncation.
- SEO snippets — Keep meta titles and descriptions within the ideal display range for search engines.
- Word-rate quotes — Estimate writing or translation effort and fees by word or character count.
- Reading time — Compute an expected reading-minutes figure to display atop a blog post.
- Essay limits — Quickly verify a paper or report meets a required word count.
- Field-length check — Confirm a value will not exceed a varchar byte limit before a database insert throws an error.
FAQ
How are characters counted for CJK text?
CJK scripts are counted by character; whitespace-based word counts are less meaningful for them, so refer to the character total.
What is the difference between counts with and without spaces?
Without spaces reflects actual text volume for strict limits; with spaces is closer to visual length.
What is the difference between UTF-8 bytes and characters?
A CJK character is three bytes in UTF-8 while ASCII is one byte, so byte counts far exceed character counts; size database fields using bytes, not characters.
How is reading time calculated?
It uses a common average pace (about 200-250 words per minute) and is an estimate that varies by reader and difficulty.
Do blank lines count as paragraphs?
Paragraphs are non-empty text blocks; consecutive blank lines are not counted as multiple paragraphs.
Can it report byte size?
This tool focuses on characters and words. For UTF-8 byte counts or encoding conversion, use our related encoding tools.