Word Stats
A suite of word counters, keyword counters and readability analysis for your blog.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.4★ from 10
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 21 Dec 2014
- Added
- Dec 2010
- Requires WP
- 4.1.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.1.0
- Downloads
- 34,026
Our analysis
AI-assistedWord Stats is a WordPress plugin designed to provide linguistic diagnostics for your content. It helps you track various metrics such as word count, readability levels, and keyword usage, allowing you to improve the quality of your posts.
The plugin features a reports page where you can analyze content by author and period, displaying metrics like total word count, post types, and readability percentages. It also offers live stats in the post edit form and supports basic Unicode scripts for international use.
Best for: Content creators and editors looking to enhance the quality of their posts through detailed analytics.
What it does well
- ✓Tracks total word count and post types
- ✓Displays top 20 keywords and readability levels
- ✓Offers live stats in the post edit form
- ✓Supports multiple languages including Spanish and Catalan
- ✓Includes diagnostics for content quality
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in December 2014
- •Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.0
- •Directory score of 46/100 indicates potential issues
Verdict
Word Stats provides useful insights for improving content quality, but its outdated status may limit compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
Fran Ontanaya's own description of Word Stats, lightly tidied.
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 with these live stats:
- Relevant keywords. Common words can be blacklisted with regular expressions in the settings page.
- A more accurate word count.
- Color coded readability tests: Automated Readability Index, Coleman-Liau Index and LIX.
- Total characters, alphanumeric characters, words and sentences.
- Characters per word, characters per sentence, words per sentence.
Additionally, an extra column with the readability level of each post can be displayed in the manage posts list.
Word Stats includes basic support for Unicode scripts, including cyrillic, greek, arabic, hindi and japanese (mileage may vary).
Spanish and Catalan translations are bundled with the plugin.
Contact
Feel free to send feedback, requests or suggestions at email@franontanaya.com.
Or follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FranOntanaya