No option to show wordcount in widget

Is there really no option to display word count in the widget? Seems like a strange omission. The only way I can find to tell word count is the share on twitter option. I can’t have that capability on my own site, but I have the ability to share it on another site? Very odd.

Showing percentages to me seems like a poor way to display progress when I’m dealing with projects of different lengths. Ten percent on a project might seem pretty significant, but if it’s only a ten-thousand word project that means I wrote a thousand words. If I were to write the same number of words on say a hundred thousand word project then progress would only be one percent.