Plugin / Word Stats

Fran Ontanaya
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

If your version is older than 4.3, try upgrading. Sometimes WP Cron doesn’t start a scheduled work right away. Wait a minute and load any page. Check that WP Cron isn’t disabled.
Word Stats uses simple algorithms (but more elaborate than the PHP word counter). For fairly ordinary English texts they will closely match human counting. The margin of error will be greater for short pieces, text with complex punctuation or in other languages, but they should be still good indicators.
Some cases are still not filtered out. Report them in the plugin support forum or via email.
Some of the plugin’s tasks can be a bit intensive, specially on large blogs. Try disabling counting for unpublished posts, and live stats when you don’t need them. Our resources are limited, for now we are working on features rather than optimization.
The built in lists only exclude some of the most common words. Performing many matches with regular expressions can be very slow.
The calculations are refreshed every few seconds.
Yes. They are ignored only for keyword counts.
They try to reflect how easy the text is to read. You can write an article about relativity in simple English and it will be rated as low level.
For ARI and CLI, they are the U.S. grade level of the text. Roughly, grade level 1 corresponds to ages 6-8, grade 8 to 14 years old, grade 12 to 17 years old. For LIX: below 25: Children’s Books 25 – 30: Simple texts 30 – 40: Normal Text / Fiction 40 – 50: Factual information, such as Wikipedia 50 – 60: Technical texts over 60: Specialist texts / research / dissertations Each index uses a different algorithm: ARI is based on word length and words per sentence. CLI is based on characters per 100 words, excluding non-word characters, and sentences per 100 words LIX is based on average words between pauses (periods, colons, semicolons, etc.) and average words longer than 6 characters. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability_test for more information.
These three indexes don’t rely on syllable counting, which is a bit more complicated and language dependent.
Try selecting a shorter period, disabling the setting to count drafts and pending posts, disabling the setting to ignore common words or shortening your list of ignored keywords.

Ratings

4.3
8 reviews

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Details Information

Version

4.5.1

First Released

20 Dec, 2010

Total Downloads

29,344

Wordpress Version

4.1.0 or higher

Tested up to:

4.1.0

Require PHP Version:

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Tags

analytics keywords seo statistics words

Contributors

Fran Ontanaya

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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