Brands over time

Mind
over time

Every year keeps its colour across every chart.│ ChatGPT, 30 Nov 2022

228 of Mind's own blog posts, press releases and announcements, 2015 to 2026, measured sentence by sentence, 61 of them recovered from the Internet Archive. How the writing has moved over the years, how it compares with 9 other charities, and what it sounds like in its own words.

Pages measured
228
Years covered
2015–26
Archived before ChatGPT
61
Blog · press
90 · 138

01 · Homepage

One capture a year

Mind's homepage from 2000 to 2024, closest to 1 July, from the Internet Archive. Pick a year or press play. Each headline is quoted from its capture and links to the archived copy.

2024mind.org.uk1 Jul 2024
Mind homepage, 1 Jul 2024

Screenshot of Mind’s homepage (mind.org.uk) as archived by the Internet Archive on 1 Jul 2024. © Mind or its licensors. Shown for comparison and review; not endorsed by Mind.

Homepage

2024

“If it's okay to not be okay, why am I hiding my struggles?”

Page title

Home - Mind

Open on the Internet Archive
  1. 2010How we can help you
  2. 2013How we can help you?
  3. 2017We're Mind, the mental health charity
  4. 2020This is a mental health emergency
  5. 2022However you identify, we’re here to fight for you
  6. 2024If it's okay to not be okay, why am I hiding my struggles?

25 captures. Screenshots are rendered from the archive and can pull in images archived later than the page itself; dates come from the capture. Years without a capture are greyed out in the strip.

02 · Measures by year

How the writing moved

Every year’s pages, averaged. Pick a measure. Hatched bars rest on fewer than 10 pages: context, not a finding. The page count sits under each year.

Sentence lengthAverage words per sentence.
8
16
24
Charities avg 13.4
8.4
8.0
10.6
10.6
7.7
14.1
15.7
11.8
18.6
17.4
17.4
ChatGPT · Nov 2022
201519 pp
20169 pp
20175 pp
20185 pp
201910 pp
20204 pp
20214 pp
20226 pp
2023no pages
20248 pp
202513 pp
20269 pp
10 or more pagesFewer than 10 pages: context, not a findingSector averageChatGPT released
Show as a table
YearSentence lengthPages
20158.419
20168.09
201710.65
201810.65
20197.710
202014.14
202115.74
202211.86
202418.68
202517.413
202617.49

Years with pages: 2015 (19), 2016 (9), 2017 (5), 2018 (5), 2019 (10), 2020 (4), 2021 (4), 2022 (6), 2024 (8), 2025 (13), 2026 (9). Dates come from page metadata, structured data, the URL, or the month a page was first archived (a latest possible date).

03 · Before and after

2019 to Nov 2022 against 2024 to 2026

The same measures on 24 pages from before ChatGPT launched and 30 pages from 2024 on. A change here is a change in style. It does not show how any page was written: people used every one of these words and shapes long before 2022, and SGR-011 found most of the shift across brands was a trend already under way.

Measure2019 to Nov 2022 · 24 pp2024 to 2026 · 30 ppChange
Sentence length
11.117.7+60%
Sentence rhythm
0.800.66−17%
Contractions
14.314.7+3%
"You"
46%14%−32 pts
"We"
39%64%+25 pts
Questions
5.20.1−97%
Exclamations
0.730.00−100%
Long words
23%24%+1 pts
Em dashes
2.462.21−10%
AI-associated words
0.181.24+589%
AI-era marketing words
0.100.23+124%
Quieter LLM-favoured words
0.481.60+231%
AI-associated sentence shapes
0.260.22−15%
Page length
1,295564−56%

Each row is scaled to its own larger value, so rows compare within themselves, not with each other. Before = 2019 to Nov 2022 (24 pages); after = 2024 to 2026 (30 pages). Method: SGR-011.

04 · Against its sector

Mind among charities

Each dot is one brand’s mean across all its measured pages; the tick is the sector average. Only brands with 10 or more measured pages are shown or counted. Select a dot to open that brand.

  1. Questions

    72% more than its sector

    3.6 against a sector average of 2.1; 2nd highest of 9.

  2. Contractions

    19% more than its sector

    15.2 against a sector average of 12.7; 3rd highest of 9.

  3. Em dashes

    19% more than its sector

    2.02 against a sector average of 1.70; mid-table, 4th of 9.

Sentence lengthMid-table, 6th of 9
Mind 12.8
10.317.3
Contractions3rd highest of 9
Mind 15.2
4.622.1
"You"Mid-table, 4th of 9
Mind 34%
15%49%
"We"Mid-table, 6th of 9
Mind 44%
39%71%
Questions2nd highest of 9
Mind 3.6
0.03.8
Long wordsLowest of 9
Mind 23%
23%30%
Em dashesMid-table, 4th of 9
Mind 2.02
0.482.90
AI-associated words3rd lowest of 9
Mind 0.49
0.040.86
Exclamations3rd lowest of 9
Mind 0.31
0.190.88
Page lengthMid-table, 4th of 9
Mind 1,004
6341,479

Pages measured: Cancer Research UK 133 · Oxfam 201 · British Red Cross 315 · Macmillan Cancer Support 290 · RNLI 35 · NSPCC 174 · Barnardo's 298 · Mind 228 · Save the Children 317 · RSPCA 3. Measures and method: SGR-010; the brand list and sectors come from SGR-009.

05 · Vocabulary

Words Mind uses more than its peers

The words this brand reaches for more often than the rest of its sector. This is subject matter more than voice.

mental270.0 vs 14.1
health274.4 vs 40.2
problems45.1 vs 3.8
insurance21.4 vs 1.3
campaigning20.9 vs 1.6
peer17.5 vs 1.0
crisis50.8 vs 15.9
feel53.6 vs 17.4
campaigns15.5 vs 1.3
MindSector peers

Uses per 10,000 words, ranked by weighted log-odds (Monroe et al. 2008) across 228 pages. Checked for product names and page furniture.

06 · In its own words

What it sounded like

Openings of real pages, quoted word for word, oldest first. Each links to the page, or to the Internet Archive’s copy when it has gone.

2016Oct (archived by) · PressArchived copy
“It’s not always easy to talk to your GP about your deepest feelings. Even getting to the point where you accept you may have a mental health problem can be difficult.”
For GP patients
2017Jul (archived by) · PressArchived copy
“Mind today reveals that a high proportion of people with mental health problems are being made more unwell by the benefits system. In particular, the process of being ‘sanctioned’ – having financial support cut or stopped altogether – is worsening people’s mental health.”
People with mental health problems made more unwell by benefits system
2020Apr (archived by) · PressArchived copy
“Voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations have a vital role working alongside our NHS colleagues to support anyone who has a mental health problem.”
Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund
20256 Feb · Press
“The desire to avoid awkwardness is highest among young people – 45% of 16-24 year olds say not speaking up is better than having an awkward conversation, compared to just 19% of 65-74 year olds.”
A third of UK keeps silent on mental health
20255 Dec · Press
“In the year 2024/25, Mind shops sold over 4.7 million items and diverted six million tonnes of goods from landfill. With thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff, the charity’s retail network has also played a vital role in raising awareness of mental health and signposting people to support.”
Andrew Vale to step down as Managing Director of Mind Retail

07 · Every page

All 253 pages, by year

The full list behind every number above, with links to the live page or the archived copy. 228 count towards the measures; the rest were not measured (1 pdf report (annual report, info pack), 17 mostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose, 7 same text as an earlier page from this brand). Pages with no reliable date count in the overall numbers but in no year.

20269 pages
202513 pages
20248 pages
20226 pages
20214 pages
20204 pages
201910 pages
20185 pages
20175 pages
20169 pages
201519 pages
In the overall numbers, no year136 pages
Not measured25 pages
  • https://www.mind.org.uk/media/chepx0dd/mind-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-25-compressed.pdf2024 · info_pack · 26,894 wordsPDF report (annual report, info pack): listed, but kept out of every measure
  • Supporting a colleague with a mental health problemby Oct 2019 · press · 396 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Sep 2019 · blog · 282 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · announcement · 279 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • Wishing Frank Bruno a speedy recoveryby Aug 2019 · press · 358 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • Third sector servicesby Aug 2019 · blog · 757 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Aug 2019 · blog · 279 words · archivedSame text as an earlier page from this brand: only the earliest copy is measured
  • Day servicesby Jul 2019 · blog · 813 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Useful contactsby Feb 2017 · blog · 354 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • 404 - Page Not Foundby Nov 2016 · press · 251 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • About peer supportby Jul 2016 · blog · 397 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Peer support directoryby Jun 2016 · blog · 423 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Useful contactsby Apr 2016 · blog · 340 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • About sexuality and mental healthby Apr 2016 · blog · 405 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Addiction and dependencyby Nov 2015 · blog · 266 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Effects of bereavementby Aug 2015 · blog · 247 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Booklets for young peopleby Jan 2015 · blog · 312 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Peer supportby Jan 2015 · blog · 480 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
  • Useful contactsby Jan 2015 · blog · 620 words · archivedMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose

08 · Method

How this was measured

The pages

Mind's own blog posts, press releases and announcements, fetched from the live site in 2026 and from the Internet Archive for 2015 to November 2022. Homepages are shown as captures; product and help pages are not measured.

The measures

Code counts from ScriptGrain’s writing instruments: sentence length and rhythm, contractions, pronouns, punctuation, long words, and three published lists of AI-associated words. No AI model reads or judges any page.

What it cannot say

These measures describe style. They cannot tell who or what wrote a page, and nothing here says or implies that any brand used AI to write.

Sample sizes

Every number carries its page count. Years under 10 pages, and before-and-after comparisons with under 10 pages on a side, are shown as context only.

Sentence length
Average words per sentence.
Sentence rhythm
How much sentence length varies (standard deviation over mean). Higher reads less even.
Contractions
Contractions (we're, you'll, it's) per 1,000 words. A rough gauge of how conversational the writing is.
"You"
Share of I/we/you pronouns that are "you": how much the writing addresses the reader.
"We"
Share of I/we/you pronouns that are "we": how much the writing talks about the organisation.
Questions
Question marks per 1,000 words.
Exclamations
Exclamation marks per 1,000 words.
Long words
Share of words with seven or more letters.
Em dashes
Em dashes per 1,000 words.
AI-associated words
Words from SGR-007's three AI-associated lists, per 1,000 words. These are style markers that people used long before ChatGPT; a higher rate says nothing about who or what wrote the page.
AI-era marketing words
Marketing words that became more common in AI-era copy (seamless, elevate, unlock...), per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
Quieter LLM-favoured words
Everyday words language models are known to over-use, per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
AI-associated sentence shapes
Sentence patterns such as "not just X, but Y", found by ScriptGrain's cliche checker, per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
Page length
Average words per page.

Studies: SGR-009: Do brands in the same sector sound the same? · SGR-010: How UK brands write · SGR-011: Did brand writing change after ChatGPT?.