Word Stats for WordPress Plugin Directory
Word Stats is a WordPress app, with a 4.4 average rating from 10 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Word Stats is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Fran Ontanaya. With a rating of 4.4★ from 10 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Word Stats is a well-rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 10 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Fran Ontanaya — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (10) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Word Stats works
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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 protected].
Or follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FranOntanaya
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Word Stats?
Word Stats is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.4-star rating from 10 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Fran Ontanaya.