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Reading time calculator tool

Search engines are shifting focus from long form content to short form content. Some examples:

  1. Featured snippets (short form answers)
  2. Reading labels in search (Experimental Time to read badge by Google) to let user decide to read long form article or short form article. Seeing lot of youtube videos too suggesting the same.

So in order to have better rankings at search, it's important to estimate the total time taken to read a blog post.
To calculate that, developed a free tool to estimate the total reading time (including images).

Here is the Reading time calculator tool.

Looking for feedback on the tool and want to know your thoughts if any other features are missing. Thanks in advance.

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