Characters Counter
Fast, accurate and free online characters counter tool running directly in your browser.
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Online character counter counts in real time: characters with and without spaces, words, sentences and paragraphs. Check if your text is within the limits of SEO, Twitter/X, SMS, meta description and other platforms.
Cross-platform character limits
Each platform and format has its own text length limits: Twitter/X – 280 characters per tweet (counts Unicode characters, not bytes). Instagram bio – 150 characters. Facebook post – 63,206 characters (virtually unlimited). LinkedIn post – 3000 characters (shortens after 210 characters). Meta description (SEO) – 150-160 characters (Google avoids truncating). Title tag (SEO) – 50-60 characters (Google displays up to ~600px). SMS – 160 characters for ASCII, 70 for Unicode (one SMS, above combined). E-mail subject – up to 50 characters (longer ones are truncated in many clients).
How to count characters in different systems?
Characters vs bytes: in UTF-8 (Unicode), Polish characters (ą, ę, ó, ć, ź, ż, ś, ń, ł) occupy 2 bytes instead of 1, but are counted as 1 character. Emoji takes 1-2 Unicode "code points", but may be treated as 2 characters in some systems (Twitter). The character counter shows: characters including spaces (with whitespace), characters without spaces, words (tokens separated by spaces), sentences (ending with a period, exclamation mark or question mark), paragraphs (separated by blank lines or Enter), reading time (assuming 200-250 words/minute).
Character Count and SEO
Content length matters for SEO: articles over 1,500 words usually rank better for "long-tail" keywords. Information pages should have at least 300–500 words of unique content. However, quality is more important than quantity - a short, complete article is superior to long "padding content". The tool shows the precise number of words important when ordering texts (copywriting).
A tool for copywriters and SEO specialists
The counter is particularly useful when: writing meta description and title tags (checking whether they are within the limits), tweet threads and social media posts, writing marketing SMSes, creating e-commerce product descriptions, working with CMS systems with text field limits, copywriting tenders with a given number of characters or words.
FAQ
How to count characters in Word or Google Docs?
Microsoft Word: Review → Statistics (or Tools → Word Count). Displays: pages, words, characters (without spaces) and characters (with spaces), paragraphs and lines. Google Docs: Tools → Word Count (Ctrl+Shift+C). The results are similar to our online counter. The difference may result from a different approach to counting spaces and special characters.
Should emoji be counted as one character?
Depends on the platform: on Twitter, standard emoji = 1 character, but some emoji combinations (flag emoji, skin tone modifiers) = 2 characters. In MySQL UTF-8 databases: emoji takes 4 bytes (requires utf8mb4 collation). In JavaScript: two-character emojis (supplementary plane) have length 2 at string.length. The character counter shows "visible characters" (not bytes), which is intuitive for the user.
How many words should an SEO article have?
There is no perfect number, but practical guidelines: "Pillar content" (cornerstone) - 2000-5000+ words. News articles - 1000-2000 words. Blog posts - 800-1500 words. E-commerce product pages - 300-600 words. Always check how many words the first 3 Google results for your keyword have - this is your benchmark, not an arbitrary number.
How to calculate text reading time?