When good tools go bad

What to do when your favourite tool fails?

[Liane]

For the second time in less than 6 months, my favourite keyword density sites have both gone bad and stopped working.

I don't like complicated keyword density analyzers. I only want to know the on page count including stop words. I just want to make sure I haven't gone over the top with my on page keyword density. I don't care about alt tags, meta descriptions, headings or anything else. I just want the bare bones of what exists on my page and what the user will see.

But alas ... I can't find one which works anymore. I have written to both site owners (the last one just two days ago), but no response.

I tried to use a few which have all the bells and whistles, but couldn't make head nor tails of any of them. They are too darned complicated to be bothered with. When I tried one and checked the box saying, "save my settings" ... it didn't and I can't be bothered unchecking about 30 different checked boxes every time I want to check a page.

Does anyone know of a "simple" keyword density tool which works? Can you sticky me with the url? I would be forever grateful. I have searched but have come up empty. :(

[henry0]

You could do your own in PHP
Use preg to find a key word
PHP manual has a bunch of examples

Next: Count occurrences
<?php

$test = "let’s count number of words.";

$count = count(explode(" ", $test));

echo "$test contains $count words";

?>

Last density is only a percentage so if you have words count and keywords number you have your density

[Liane]

LOL henryO ... obviously, you have mistaken me for someone who knows what they are doing! :)

Que es PHP?

[henry0]

OOPPSS :)
Well, since my Catalan is gone and me recordo only unos palabras y
Finishing in French: c'est un language de programmeur!

If you got a few days I will bring it to our PHP forum, toss in the cauldron and try to come with something that we can both use.
Like a form (no programming language needed)

[Liane]

If you got a few days I will bring it to our PHP forum, toss in the cauldron and try to come with something that we can both use.
Like a form (no programming language needed)

I would be your slave forever if you could point me in the right direction! Please see your sticky mail. :)

[Liane]

Things didn't work out with HenryO due to time constraints ... so if anyone knows of a tool which displays the percentage of all words on a page (including stop words and titles) ... please sticky me the URL!

Not looking for anything fancy, just a "simple" tool that works! :)