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title: Keyword Density Analyzer — Calculate Term Frequency % | RGM® Tools
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### Density results

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Top term density

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### How to use

1. Paste your content (or fetch from URL for same-origin pages).
2. Configure filters — stopword removal cleans up the most common signal-less words.
3. Click Analyze. The tool computes density (% of total filtered words) for every unique term.
4. Export the top-N density list to CSV, Excel, or Word.

**What is keyword density?** Keyword density is the percentage of your text that consists of a given term. If your 1,000-word article uses "growth marketing" 15 times, the density of that phrase is 1.5%. Density was once a heavy ranking signal in SEO; modern search engines have moved past it but the metric remains useful for surface-level content auditing, ensuring topical balance, and avoiding accidental keyword stuffing. There is no "magic" target density — most well-optimized content lands at 1–3% for primary terms.

## What density actually tells you

Modern SEO doesn't reward keyword density mechanically. Google's algorithms have been semantic-aware since at least 2013 (Hummingbird) and have only become more sophisticated since. But density is still useful as a diagnostic for three things: **topical balance** (are you mentioning your primary topic enough that the page is unambiguously about it?), **over-optimization risk** (are you mentioning a single term so often that you're triggering spam filters?), and **semantic spread** (are you discussing the topic with enough vocabulary variety to look like a real piece of content rather than a thin shell?).

For most articles targeting commercial-intent queries, you want your primary keyword at 1–2.5% density with strong LSI vocabulary spread. Below 0.5% and the page may not signal clearly that it's about that topic. Above 4% and you're risking thin-content patterns even if the writing is good.

## Density vs the alternatives

For competitor analysis, pair density with the [N-gram analyzer](/tools/ngram-analyzer/) (phrase patterns), the [proximity analyzer](/tools/keyword-proximity/) (how close target terms appear to each other), and the [prominence analyzer](/tools/keyword-prominence/) (whether terms appear in high-visibility positions like title and H1).

### Pair with these RGM tools

[**Keyword proximity**Distance between target terms.](/tools/keyword-proximity/)
[**Keyword prominence**Position-weighted keyword analysis.](/tools/keyword-prominence/)
[**SEO audit**Run 30+ checks on any page.](/tools/seo-audit/)