Character Counter
Count characters, words, lines, and bytes in your text in real-time.
How to Use the Character Counter
Simply type or paste text into the text area to see real-time counts for various metrics. Character counts are shown both with and without spaces, so you can check according to your needs. Line count is based on newlines in the text. Word count is calculated automatically for both English (space-separated) and other languages. Byte count shows the actual data size in UTF-8 encoding. All text is processed only in your browser and is never sent externally.
About Character Counting
Character counting is needed in many situations: social media posts (Twitter has a 140/280 character limit), meta descriptions (120 characters recommended), and article writing (SEO articles typically target 2000-5000 characters). In web development, managing character counts for HTML title elements (60 characters recommended) and meta descriptions (120 characters recommended) is important. In UTF-8 encoding, ASCII characters are 1 byte while CJK characters are 3 bytes, so the same character count can result in very different byte sizes. When considering database column sizes or API payload sizes, checking byte count rather than character count is important.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q. Are newline characters included in the character count?
A. Yes, newline characters are counted. In browser text areas, LF (\n) is typically used and counted as one character.
Q. Are both full-width and half-width spaces treated as spaces?
A. Yes, the "excluding spaces" count excludes half-width spaces, full-width spaces, and tabs.
Q. Does it work with large amounts of text?
A. Yes, it can count text with over 100,000 characters without issues. All processing is done in the browser, and data is never sent externally.