Thin Content Detector
Pages with too few words can drag your whole site down in search. Paste your domain and see exactly which pages need more content, sorted by severity.
Scan your site
How it works
Enter your domain
Paste your domain or sitemap URL. The tool finds your sitemap and pulls every page it can.
We crawl and count
Each page gets fetched and analyzed. Word count, headings, meta descriptions, H1 tags. All checked automatically.
See what needs work
Pages are sorted by word count and flagged by severity. You know exactly which pages to bulk up first.
What you get
Not just word counts. A full content health check for every page on your site.
Word count per page
Every page gets a word count pulled from the actual body content, not navigation or footer text. You see exactly how much real content is on each page.
Severity ratings
Pages are flagged as Critical (under 100 words), Thin (under 300), or Light (under 500). Filter by severity so you fix the worst pages first.
Missing H1 and meta flags
The tool checks for missing H1 tags and meta descriptions on every page. These are basic SEO elements that still matter, and they're easy to miss at scale.
Heading structure counts
See how many headings each page has. Pages with zero or one heading usually lack structure, which hurts both SEO and readability.
Sortable results table
Sort by word count, URL, or title. Click any column header to flip the order. Find the worst offenders in seconds.
CSV export
Download the full report as a spreadsheet. Hand it to your content team, track fixes over time, or use it as a prioritized to-do list.
Why thin content hurts your rankings
Google has said it directly: pages with little or no original content provide a bad user experience. When your site has a bunch of thin pages, it signals low quality across the board. That affects how Google treats your entire domain, not just the weak pages.
The fix isn't always "write more words." Sometimes a thin page should be merged with another. Sometimes it should be deleted entirely. Other times it genuinely needs 500 more words of useful content. This tool gives you the data to make that call page by page, instead of guessing.
I built this because I kept manually checking word counts across my own sites. Copy the page text, paste into a word counter, repeat 50 times. It's one of several free SEO tools I've put together to cut through the busywork.
Common questions
There's no magic number. But pages under 300 words rarely rank well unless they're very specific (like a contact page). For blog posts and content pages, 800+ words is a good target. This tool flags anything under 500 so you can decide what needs attention.
No. The crawler extracts main content from the page body and strips out navigation, sidebars, footers, and boilerplate. You get the actual content word count, not inflated numbers from repeated site-wide elements.
Not always. Some pages are thin for a good reason (contact pages, category pages). Others might be better off merged with a related page. And some genuinely need more content. The tool shows you which pages are thin so you can make the right call.
Critical means under 100 words. These are almost certainly a problem. Thin is under 300 words, likely too short for Google to rank well. Light is under 500 words, worth reviewing but might be fine depending on the page type.
No. Everything runs during the session. Your URLs and content aren't saved anywhere. Close the tab and it's gone.
Any publicly accessible site with crawlable pages. Doesn't matter what platform: Shopify, WordPress, Wix, custom code, whatever.
Find your thin pages before Google does
Takes about 30 seconds. No signup, no cost.