This is a Pelican plugin to calculate various statistics about a post and store them in an article.stats dictionary. You can see this in action in the sidebar on the left of this site.
I wanted to implement the nice little “X min read” thing from Medium - and it turned out that it was easy to provide a few other interesting stats at the same time, for people to use in their templates.
The returned article.stats dictionary contains the following:
wc: how many wordsread_mins: how many minutes would it take to read this article, based on 250 wpmword_counts: frequency count of all the words in the article; can be used for tag/word cloudsfi: Flesch-kincaid Index/ Reading Easefk: Flesch-kincaid Grade Level
For example:
{
'wc': 2760,
'fi': '65.94',
'fk': '7.65',
'word …