WordBench
Anything that changes what you see, what a number means, or what this site promises about your text is listed here with a date. Platform limits were last rechecked against their sources on 23 July 2026.
Added
Every platform WordBench tracks a limit for now has its own page at /limits, with the published number, the unit that platform actually counts in, what happens when you go over, a link to the source document and the date it was last checked. The data behind them was already on the site; it now has somewhere to live.
Added
Every counting rule the site applies is written out at /methodology: what counts as a word, how characters are measured four ways, how sentences are detected, the readability formulas, and the complete stop-word list used for keyword density. A density figure calculated against a word list nobody can see is not a reproducible number, so the list is published in full.
Added
The counter can now be embedded on any site with one line of HTML, free, with no tracking and no cookies. The only condition is that the credit link stays visible and followable.
Added
Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, with both formulas and the syllable heuristic published on the methodology page. Dale-Chall was deliberately left out: it needs a 3,000-word list, and shipping a guessed version would produce a number that looks authoritative and is not.
Fixed
Section headings were built by pasting the tool name into "About the ...", which produced "About the slugify" and "About the repeat text". Every tool now carries its own written-out heading, and the build fails if one is missing or reads as "the" followed by a verb.
Fixed
Three descriptions ran past the length Google will show, so they were truncated mid-sentence in the result. The build now checks every title and description for length, duplication and a proper ending sentence.
Changed
One flat sitemap stamped every URL with the same date, which tells a crawler nothing. There are now four sitemaps behind an index, one per page type, and each URL carries the date its own content last changed.
Changed
robots.txt now names eighteen AI crawlers and allows all of them, and the obsolete Host directive is gone. The reasoning: there is no paywall, no advertising revenue an AI answer could take away, and being named as the source is the only distribution this site has.
Data checked
Every limit rechecked against the platform's own documentation. The unit column was added at the same time, because X counts weighted units, Bluesky counts graphemes with a second ceiling in bytes, and SMS counts septets or 16-bit code units depending on a single character in the message.
Added
The 160-character SMS is the most misquoted limit on the web. It is only true for GSM-7; one emoji or one curly quote drops it to 70 for the whole message.
Platform limits change without announcement, and a stale number is worse than no number. Every limit on the limit pages is rechecked against its source document each quarter, and every benchmark figure on the methodology page is rechecked each year. Both dates are shown on the pages themselves, so you can see how fresh a figure is before you rely on it.