Thin content checker. How many words are there?
How to check a page for thin content
- Paste the address of the page.
- Press Check. The tool counts every word of visible text on the page.
- Read the count. 1 to 199 words is thin, and a page with no readable text gets its own answer.
- Look at the title and H2 headings shown with the count to confirm it read the right page.
What is thin content?
Thin content is a page with little text on it. This checker draws the line at 200 words: a page with 1 to 199 words of visible text is thin.
200 is the cut-off this tool and Quorl use, so a page gets the same verdict in both.
What the thin content checker counts
The checker counts all the visible text in the page's HTML, not only the article. A Quorl scan counts the same way, so both give the same number for the same page.
No readable text is a separate answer
Some pages send no text in their HTML and draw the words with JavaScript after loading. The checker reports those as having no readable text as served, and never calls them thin.
Common thin content problems
Pages with a few lines of text
Tag pages, empty category pages and placeholder pages can end up with only a few lines. The checker gives you the exact count.
Text drawn by JavaScript
A page whose words appear only after scripts run has no readable text as served. The checker tells you that in place of a count.
Checking a page that redirects
If the address redirects within the same site, the count is for the page it lands on. The answer shows both addresses.
The Mastheads thin content checker is a free online tool that counts the visible words on one web page and calls it thin at 1 to 199 words. It uses the same count and cut-off as a Mastheads Quorl scan, shows the page's title and H2 headings, and needs no account or email.
Yes. The Mastheads thin content checker is free to use online, with no account, no email and no trial to start. Paste a page's address and it counts the page's words.
Thin content is a page with little text of its own. The free Mastheads thin content checker measures it by word count: a page with 1 to 199 words of visible text is thin.
The Mastheads thin content checker and the Quorl scan call a page thin at 1 to 199 words of visible text. A page with 200 words or more is not thin by this count, and a page with no readable text is reported as having none, never as thin.
In SEO, thin content means pages with little text of their own, such as near-empty tag pages or placeholders. A word count is a simple first check, and the free Mastheads thin content checker gives you one for the page you enter.
Paste the page's address into the free Mastheads thin content checker and press Check. It counts the visible words, says whether the page is thin, and shows its title and H2 headings so you can confirm it read the right page.
The Mastheads thin content checker counts all the visible text in the page's HTML, not only the article. A Mastheads Quorl scan counts the same way, so both give the same number for the same page.
The page's HTML carries no visible text, often because the site's scripts add the words after the page loads. The Mastheads thin content checker says the page has no readable text and never calls it thin.
Yes. Next to the word count, the Mastheads thin content checker shows the page's title and its H2 headings, so you can see which page it read.
Tag pages, empty category pages and placeholder pages can end up with only a few lines of text. Paste one into the free Mastheads thin content checker to see its exact word count.
Give the page the text a reader came for, merge it into a page on the same topic, or remove it if it has no reason to exist. Then run the Mastheads thin content checker again to see the new count.
No. The Mastheads thin content checker keeps no copy of your results and asks for no account or email. Mastheads keeps an hourly count of checks and a daily note of which site the tool read, under an identifier made from your IP address, never the IP address itself.
The Mastheads thin content checker counts one page at a time. The free Mastheads Quorl scan reads up to 100 pages of a site with the same word count and cut-off.
Check your whole site. Free.
An SEO crawler that reads the whole site, not one page: Quorl reports broken links, duplicate titles, missing meta descriptions, redirects and the internal linking problems a page-by-page checker cannot see.