Keyword density is how often a word or phrase appears relative to the total words on a page. Search engines once used it as a major ranking signal; today it is a diagnostic tool. Our free Keyword Density Checker measures every meaningful one-, two- and three-word phrase in your text and shows each as a percentage. If one term dominates, that signals keyword stuffing — bad for rankings and readability. If your target phrase barely appears, the page may lack focus.
This tool is built for bloggers, copywriters and SEO freelancers who optimize articles before publishing. Paste a draft to check it reads naturally, or enter a live URL to audit a published page or study a competitor’s content. About 150 common English stopwords (the, and, is…) are stripped automatically so the report highlights only meaningful terms. Pasted text never leaves your browser — only the URL option touches our server, and only to fetch the page you asked for.
🔍 Keyword Density Checker
Analyze pasted text or a webpage and report keyword frequency and density.
If a URL is entered, the page text is fetched through the server first, then analyzed the same way.
How to use
- Paste your article or page text into the text box, or enter a page URL in the field below it.
- Click Check Density. If you entered a URL, the page text is fetched first.
- Review the table: each keyword phrase shows its word count type (1, 2 or 3 words), raw count and density percentage.
- Compare your target keyword’s density against the rest — a healthy focus term usually sits between 1% and 3%.
- Revise overused terms with synonyms, or add your focus phrase where it is missing, then re-run the check.
FAQs
What is a good keyword density?
There is no official number. Most SEOs treat 1–3% for the main keyword as a comfortable range, with the priority on natural writing. Anything above 5% for a single term usually reads as stuffed and is worth rewriting.
Why are words like “the” and “and” missing from the report?
The tool removes a built-in list of about 150 common English stopwords before counting. These words appear everywhere and carry no topical meaning, so filtering them keeps the report focused on terms that actually describe your content.
Does the URL option work with any website?
It fetches the page from our server and extracts its readable text, so it works with most public pages. Pages behind a login, heavy JavaScript-only sites, or sites that block server requests may return little or no text — in that case, copy the article text and paste it instead.