# How to add a reading time indicator to your blog in ten minutes

DevFeed: [How to add a reading time indicator to your blog in ten minutes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-add-a-reading-time-indicator-to-your-blog-in-ten-minutes-21202.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2013/07/how-to-setup-reading-time-indicator-ten-minutes/>)

Published: 2013-07-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Document Object Model (DOM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dom.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to add an approximate reading-time indicator to a blog. It describes estimating reading time from word count and reading speed, then implementing the calculation with JavaScript and a DOM element, using the Countable library to count words.

## Source excerpt

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