Word Stats
A suite of word counters, keyword counters and readability analysis for your blog.
4.4(10 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Word Stats is a WordPress seo plugin with 200 active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 33K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
4.4/510 reviews
200active installs
33K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Word Stats adds a suite of linguistic diagnostics to help you keep track of your content and improve its quality.
The reports page lets you select an author and period to analyze, and displays:
- The total word count.
- The number and percentage of posts of each post type.
- The top 20 keywords.
- The percentage of posts of basic, intermediate and advanced readability level.
- A graph with monthly word counts for each post type.
- Diagnostics tables, with links to edit the posts that may be too short, too long, too difficult, too simple, lack relevant keywords or abuse certain keywords.
You can display the total word counts for each post type in your dashboard, widget areas and inside your posts with the [wordcounts] shortcode.
Word Stats also extends the info area of the post edit form w…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
4.5.1
- Fix: Prepared query wasn’t working on the dashboard.
- Fix: Provisional fix for dashboard stats in WordPress +3.8
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