diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 1e64a271..f5a136fc 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ gem 'randomized_field', '~> 1.0' # builds user_keys
 gem 'rest-client' # RESTClient
 gem 'rubyzip', '~> 2'
 gem 'summernote-rails', '~> 0.8.20.0', git: "https://github.com/parterburn/summernote-rails"
-gem 'words_counted' # Year in Review
+gem 'words_counted', '~> 1.0', '>= 1.0.3' # Year in Review
 gem 'zip-zip'
 gem "chartkick", "~> 5"
 gem "loofah", ">= 2.5"
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 23f1fb23..da6d32e9 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ GEM
     websocket-driver (0.7.6)
       websocket-extensions (>= 0.1.0)
     websocket-extensions (0.1.5)
-    words_counted (1.0.2)
+    words_counted (1.0.3)
     xpath (3.2.0)
       nokogiri (~> 1.8)
     zeitwerk (2.6.12)
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   uglifier
   webdrivers (~> 5.0)
   webmock
-  words_counted
+  words_counted (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.3)
   zip-zip
 
 RUBY VERSION
diff --git a/app/controllers/entries_controller.rb b/app/controllers/entries_controller.rb
index 113f5121..16ae163c 100644
--- a/app/controllers/entries_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/entries_controller.rb
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def review
     if @total_count.positive?
       @body_text = @entries.map { |e| ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(e.body) }.join(" ")
       tokeniser = WordsCounted::Tokeniser.new(@body_text)
-      @words_counter = tokeniser.tokenise
+      @words_counter = tokeniser.tokenise(exclude: Entry::WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT)
       if @total_count > 20
         all_user_entry_count = Entry.where("date >= '#{@year}-01-01'::DATE AND date <= '#{@year}-12-31'::DATE").group(:user_id).reorder("count_all").count.values
         @pctile = (((all_user_entry_count.find_index(@total_count) + 1).to_f / all_user_entry_count.count) * 100).round
diff --git a/app/models/entry.rb b/app/models/entry.rb
index cef8b040..cd6cd4e6 100644
--- a/app/models/entry.rb
+++ b/app/models/entry.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base
   include Entry::AiAssistant
   mount_uploader :image, ImageUploader
 
-  WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT = ['so', 'went', 'while', 's', 'amp', '-', 'p', 'br', 'div', 'img', 'span', 'the', 'of', 'and', 'a', 'to', 'in', 'is', 'that', 'it', 'was', 'for', 'on', 'are', 'as', 'with', 'at', 'be', 'this', 'have', 'from', 'or', 'had', 'by', 'but', 'not', 'what', 'all', 'were', 'when', 'can', 'said', 'there', 'use', 'an', 'each', 'which', 'do', 'how', 'if']
+  WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT = ['s', 'amp', '-', 'p', 'br', 'div', 'img', 'span', 'hr', '<', '>']
+  COMMON_WORDS = WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT + ['you', 'so', 'went', 'while', 's', 'amp', '-', 'p', 'br', 'div', 'img', 'span', 'the', 'of', 'and', 'a', 'to', 'in', 'is', 'that', 'it', 'was', 'for', 'on', 'are', 'as', 'with', 'at', 'be', 'this', 'have', 'from', 'or', 'had', 'by', 'but', 'not', 'what', 'all', 'were', 'when', 'can', 'said', 'there', 'use', 'an', 'each', 'which', 'do', 'how', 'if']
 
   belongs_to :user
   belongs_to :inspiration, optional: true
diff --git a/app/views/entries/review.html.haml b/app/views/entries/review.html.haml
index 9609a4f6..6e2385dd 100644
--- a/app/views/entries/review.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/entries/review.html.haml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
             %span= "We're all still journaling in first-person...we collectively used <i>\"i\"</i> 203,180 times in our entries!".html_safe
       .s-review-details
         - grouped_words = @words_counter.group_by(&:itself).transform_values(&:count).sort_by { |_k, v| v }.reverse.to_h
-        - grouped_words = grouped_words.select { |word, count| !Entry::WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT.include?(word) }
+        - grouped_words = grouped_words.select { |word, count| !Entry::COMMON_WORDS.include?(word) }
         - grouped_words.first(25).each do |word, count|
           %h3
             = word
diff --git a/lib/tasks/entry.rake b/lib/tasks/entry.rake
index 82cce409..543a593a 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/entry.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/entry.rake
@@ -139,14 +139,21 @@ namespace :entry do
     all_entries = Entry.where("date >= '#{year}-01-01'::DATE AND date <= '#{year}-12-31'::DATE")
     entries_bodies = all_entries.map { |e| ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(e.body) }.join(" ")
 
-    tokeniser = WordsCounted::Tokeniser.new(entries_bodies)
-    total_words = tokeniser.tokenise.length.to_f
+    tokenizer = WordsCounted::Tokeniser.new(entries_bodies).tokenise(exclude: Entry::WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT)
+    total_words = tokenizer.count
+
+    counter = WordsCounted.count(entries_bodies)
+    most_frequent = counter.token_frequency.first(400).select { |w| !Entry::COMMON_WORDS.include?(w[0]) }.first(40).map { |w| "#{w[0]}: #{number_with_delimiter(w[1])}" }
 
     avg_words = total_words / all_entries.count
     total_chars = entries_bodies.length
     avg_chars = total_chars / all_entries.count
     avg_tweets_per_post = ((avg_chars).to_f / 280).ceil
-    most_frequent = words_counter.token_frequency.first(40).map { |w| "#{w[0]}: #{number_with_delimiter(w[1])}" }
+
+    grouped_words = total_words.group_by(&:itself).transform_values(&:count).sort_by { |_k, v| v }.reverse.to_h
+    grouped_words = grouped_words.select { |word, count| !Entry::WORDS_NOT_TO_COUNT.include?(word) }
+    grouped_words.first(25)
+
     p "Users created: #{number_with_delimiter(User.where("created_at >= '#{year}-01-01'::DATE AND created_at <= '#{year}-12-31'::DATE").count)}"
     p "Entries created in #{year}: #{number_with_delimiter(Entry.where("created_at >= '#{year}-01-01'::DATE AND created_at <= '#{year}-12-31'::DATE").count)}"
     p "Entries for #{year}: #{number_with_delimiter(all_entries.count)}"