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WordCountBot

WordCountBot analyzes website word count based on public pages. All words belonging to public pages and included in HTML source code.
WeglotWordCountBot
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What is WordCountBot?

WordCountBot belongs to Weglot's Website Word Count tool. A person enters a website URL and starts a scan, after which the crawler visits public pages and counts words found in their HTML source. Weglot says that this includes text in SEO tags, not only words visible in the main article body.

The service reports counts by URL and a site total. Weglot describes the total as a unique count that avoids counting repeated words or sentences more than once across the site. Pages that require a visitor to log in are outside the tool's stated scan scope.

Cloudflare has observed Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WordCountBot/0.1;), which contains the stable WordCountBot token. Robots behavior is unknown in this catalog, and Cloudflare's bot directory marks it as not following robots.txt. There is no recorded signature directory or verified IP identity for authenticating an individual request.

Despite its Preview category in this dataset, WordCountBot does not build message cards or a public search index. Its documented result is a word-count report, with no supported effect on AI answers or model training.

Indirectly relevant

Is WordCountBot relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. WordCountBot has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

WordCountBot fetches pages to build link-preview cards. It does not feed an AI index, but it reads the same Open Graph and structured metadata that AI systems parse to understand your pages, so clean preview metadata doubles as AI-friendly metadata.

How to handle WordCountBot

Allow WordCountBot when someone on your team intentionally needs Weglot to estimate the words on public pages. A scan should not need access to any authenticated area.

You can express a site-wide refusal with:

User-agent: WordCountBot
Disallow: /

The record does not confirm compliance and Cloudflare's bot directory marks it false. Check the scan result and access logs after adding a rule. If the crawler must not reach a path, enforce the restriction with authentication or an edge rule.

Examples

  • A localization manager submits a marketing site to Weglot's word-count tool before estimating the size of a translation project.
  • The scan counts words in page titles and descriptions because those strings are present in the public HTML source.
  • A member-only knowledge base stays out of the report because its pages require authentication.

Frequently asked questions about WordCountBot

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Weglot operates WordCountBot for its Website Word Count tool.

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