Thin-page finder (word count)

What this tool checks

A thin-content finder counts the visible words on each URL you submit and flags any page under about 300 words as 'thin' — too light on substance to rank well or be quoted. Thin pages are the first casualties of Google's helpful-content and scaled-content updates, and AI engines skip them because there is no self-contained answer to lift.

What it looks at

Body word count

The number of words in a page's main content — the single clearest proxy for whether a page has enough substance to actually answer a query.

Thin threshold (~300 words)

Pages below roughly 300 words are flagged as thin, since they rarely cover a topic fully enough to rank or earn a citation.

Scaled-content risk

Batches of near-empty, mass-produced pages trigger Google's scaled content abuse policy, which can demote a whole site, not just the thin URLs.

Main content vs boilerplate

Only body words tell you if a page is thin — but shared nav, footer and cookie chrome can pad the raw count, so judge by the article body, not the total.

Bulk outlier detection

Counting up to 10 URLs side by side surfaces which pages lag the rest, so you fix the weakest ones first.

Answer completeness

AI engines quote pages that fully resolve a question; a 120-word stub rarely holds a liftable, self-contained answer, so it gets passed over.

How to use it

1. Paste your URL list (up to 10) — mix suspected thin pages with healthy ones for comparison — and run the count.
2. Review the pages flagged under 300 words and confirm each is genuinely thin, not a legitimately short page like a contact or login screen.
3. Fix the thin ones: expand them with substantive answers, merge near-duplicates, or noindex/remove pages that can't justify their own URL.

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