Title: Word Count
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Word Count

 *  [lsilver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsilver/)
 * (@lsilver)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-9/)
 * Is there any way for us to have the word count of a page/post in the data layer?
   Or even better a way to have ranges of word counts (e.g. 0 to 250 words, 251 
   to 500, 501 to 1000, etc.)?
 * This would allow us to get some nice analytics on the length of posts and user
   engagement.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duracelltomi-google-tag-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duracelltomi-google-tag-manager/)

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 *  Thread Starter [lsilver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsilver/)
 * (@lsilver)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-9/#post-7051290)
 * Along the same lines, can we use the plugin to add to the data layer a way that
   we can categorize pages by parent page? So if we have a parent page with 4 child
   pages, we can see in the data layer of all 5 pages the parent page name?
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Geiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duracelltomi/)
 * (@duracelltomi)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-9/#post-7051542)
 * Hi,
 * Word count was requested earlier but I would say such a feature should be implemented
   in the browser using JavaScript. I am not saying that I will not implement such
   a feature but mainly I try to focus on options which would need PHP coding skills
   from users.
 * As for the parent pages: I find this idea great however I also need to consider
   how much a feature can make the whole site slower. In you example such a backtrace
   would need 4-5 extra database server calls which could be “expensive” on sites
   with high load.
 * Thomas

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-9/#post-7051542)
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