Character & Word Counter

to read to read aloud Reading at 200 words a minute and speaking at 130, which are the usual figures.

Remove

The number beside a switch is how many things it removed the last time. They are applied in a fixed order, not the order they are listed: entities have to be decoded before curly quotes are straightened, or ’ would become a curly apostrophe and stay one — and spaces are collapsed last, because everything before it leaves gaps. The cleaning happens in the box itself, so Ctrl+Z puts the original back.

The Character & Word Counter needs JavaScript: the counting and the cleaning happen in this browser, so nothing you paste has to travel anywhere. With JavaScript switched off there is nothing that could count it.