Wordcount of page seems to be incorrect

[roman-schuermann]

In our project we use YoastSeo (0.0.5) and the word count of a given page seems to be not correct and therefore the value for keyword density is not correct also.
The Yoast Plugin counts: 4918 words but actualy there are only 841 words on the page (only content).
Is this a bug or a bad configuration?

[Sebobo]

Sorry just now saw the issue. But thanks for reporting, I'll check it out!

[Sebobo]

Hi @roman-schuermann, is it possible for you to provide me the link or source code of your example?

I just checked on my site and the word count is 99% correct on a few pages I checked.

[roman-schuermann]

Hi Sebobo,
thanks for your effort. We already solved this issue, reason was additional content (for displaying a modal for eg. privacy policy or imprint) on that page. This additional content was also taken into account for the wordcout...

We solve it by removing this content, but maybe you have a solution to exclude this kind of content from the wordcout? It would be fine, because otherwise we have a lot of changes for our customer...

Thanks in advance

[Sebobo]

There is a selector in the page parser which selects the content that the Yoast library will analyze. This could be made configurable. So for example instead of parsedPreviewDocument.querySelector('body').innerHTML one could provide a custom selector via the settings to select a content wrapper excluding the content for modals etc...

[Sebobo]

Hi @roman-schuermann,

I implemented the feature and need to test it a bit with different Neos versions.
Therefore it's available in master for now.

See https://github.com/Sebobo/Shel.Neos.YoastSeo#contentselector.

[Sebobo]

Solved via https://github.com/Sebobo/Shel.Neos.YoastSeo/releases/tag/0.0.7