Title: Word Count Wrong
Last modified: June 2, 2020

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# Word Count Wrong

 *  Resolved [billferris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billferris/)
 * (@billferris)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-wrong/)
 * The Word Count for a number of our posts is obviously wrong (under-reported).
   There is nothing uncommon in the way these posts were created or coded – same
   as every other post. Some include FAQs and some don’t.
 * For example, the word count for [https://decorinteriorsus.com/blog/outdoor/what-is-upf/](https://decorinteriorsus.com/blog/outdoor/what-is-upf/)
   is only 160 words. The actual count is 1,052.
 * It would also be nice if we could sort by the word count in the WP admin.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fword-count-wrong%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-wrong/#post-12928573)
 * If you are receiving an inaccurate text count of the number of words on your 
   page, this is typically due to the content of the page being created outside 
   of the default WordPress editor. Some page builder plugins are not able to share
   the content created in them with the readability analysis feature of Yoast SEO.
 * Can you let us know if you are using a page builder plugin such as Visual Composer,
   Site Origin, Beaver Builder etc to create your page’s content? The SEO and readability
   analysis feature scan sometimes not work correctly if you are using some kind
   of visual page builder, as they can cause the page’s content to not be accessible
   to the plugin due to it being created outside the functions of the standard WordPress
   page editor.We have additional information available on this issue at the following
   link: [https://kb.yoast.com/kb/error-text-contains-0-words/](https://kb.yoast.com/kb/error-text-contains-0-words/)
 *  [Jerlyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerparx/)
 * (@jerparx)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-wrong/#post-12963062)
 * Hi [@billferris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billferris/) ,
 * We’re closing this thread because we haven’t heard back from you in a while. 
   Should you have further questions, please open a [new thread](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo/).
 *  Thread Starter [billferris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billferris/)
 * (@billferris)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-wrong/#post-12963074)
 * I already replied that I didn’t use an external editor to create the posts.

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 * Last reply from: [billferris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billferris/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-wrong/#post-12963074)
 * Status: resolved