Free Thin Content Detector
Analyze any URL for content quality signals: word count, text-to-HTML ratio, duplicate sections, and heading structure.
Free Thin Content Checker
Google's Panda algorithm targets low-value content. Our free checker analyzes five content quality signals and returns a score from 0 to 100 — giving you a prioritized list of pages to improve before they drag down your entire domain's rankings.
Five Content Quality Signals We Check
Pages under 300 words rarely rank for competitive queries. Google favors comprehensive, authoritative coverage of topics.
A very low content-to-code ratio suggests a bloated template with minimal actual content — a classic thin content signal.
Repeated boilerplate paragraphs (newsletter blocks, footer text included in body, syndicated intros) are detected and flagged.
Pages without heading tags lack semantic organization, making it harder for Googlebot to understand the content hierarchy.
Very long unsectioned blocks of text signal poor content organization. We calculate average words per heading tag.
Thin Content vs Low-Value Content: What Google Actually Penalizes
Thin content is not just about word count. A 2,000-word page filled with repetitive filler, scraped boilerplate, and keyword stuffing can qualify as thin. Google's quality raters assess Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — EAT. Our content score is a proxy for these signals, identifying content that is likely to fail quality review. Pair this with our Free Keyword Cannibalization Checker to identify pages competing against each other so you can consolidate them into a single authoritative resource instead.