# Calculated read time is high though there is only one post

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/calculated-read-time-is-high-though-there-is-only-one-post/308062
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 15, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calculated-read-time-is-high-though-there-is-only-one-post/308062 "2024-05-15T10:59:41Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calculated-read-time-is-high-though-there-is-only-one-post/308062/5 "2024-05-15T14:00:23Z")

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Looking at [https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-wizard-plugin/73345.json](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-wizard-plugin/73345.json)… the `posts_count` there is correctly `1`… but the word count is `95026` 🤯 — looks like this isn’t being updated when replies are deleted.

I also notice that there are 31 links listed… so those are coming through deleted replies as well.

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