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Character Counter
Count the total characters in your text, shown both with and without spaces.
How to Use Character Counter
- 1Paste your text
- 2View the total character count with and without spaces
About Character Counter
What it reports
Paste or type text and the tool shows two figures: the total characters and the characters without spaces. The second figure removes every whitespace character, including tabs and line breaks, not only spaces.
Where the count may surprise you
- The count is by UTF-16 code unit. Ordinary letters count as one, but many emoji and some rare symbols count as two.
- Line breaks count as one character in the total.
- Accented letters typed as a base letter plus a combining mark can count as two.
Common limits to check against
- Search result titles are usually shown up to roughly 60 characters and descriptions around 150 to 160, but Google truncates by pixel width, so treat these as guides.
- X (Twitter) posts are limited to 280 characters for most accounts, and platforms may weight some characters differently.
- SMS limits depend on the encoding; see the SMS character counter for that.
This tool does not count words or lines. For those, use the word counter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Every character in your text — letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces — using JavaScript's native string length.
It's the same text with all space characters removed before counting, useful for platforms or forms that specifically exclude spaces from their character limit.
All whitespace — the 'no spaces' figure removes spaces, tabs, and line breaks alike, not just the literal space character.
No — counting happens entirely in your browser.