Estimated Reading Time

Hi,

If you would like to disable the estimated reading time, you can turn off the Enhanced Slack Sharing feature under the WP admin dashboard > SEO (sidebar) > General > Features tab.

You can learn more about it here — https://yoast.com/help/enhanced-slack-sharing/

Hey Michael

Thanks for your reply, but we don’t want to remove the time.

The time is wrong tho, all our pages have a huge amount of time

e.g. 115 minutes for about 500 words?

Hi,

Are you using the default WordPress block or classic editor to add your content? Or are you using a third-party page builder plugin or custom theme box to add your content?

Could you provide us with an example URL so we can check on this further?

You can learn more about the feature here — https://yoast.com/features/estimated-reading-time/ & https://yoast.com/help/estimated-reading-time-in-yoast-seo/

Hello,

We assumed it came from yoastseo, we dont have any wordpress plugin for reading time

https://www.landlord studio.com/resources-for-uk-landlords/

example (remove space in the link) ??

Hi,

Based on your provided URL, it looks like you are using a third-party page builder or custom theme box to add your content, instead of the default WP Block or Classic Editor.

It seems like the content analysis for the estimated reading time is unable to correctly parse the actual content of your post or page — https://yoast.com/help/is-the-plugin-compatible-with-xyz-visual-page-builder/

If you test this on a default WP theme and use the default WP block editor, are you then getting the expected estimated reading time?

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your quick replies, is it possible to change the time if it is not parsing correctly?

Hi,

If you want to modify any of the Yoast SEO plugin outputs, please do refer to our API documentation on our developer portal here — https://developer.yoast.com/customization/apis/overview

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