Consider a keyword whitelist for your description rating

[SporeProductions]

I find it a little silly when the Description Meta "bar" goes orange and reports that the word "the" or "and" was used too many times. Surely such "stop words", etc carry zero weight for or against SEO... ?

Since you probably wouldn't want to maintain a built-in whitelist of words like this to ignore when evaluating the meta title and description text, how about a setting where we can define a comma seperated list of our own?

[sybrew]

There are conditions for these checks, and they don't consider the full-length description (320 instead of 160 chars):

1. If the word is 3 characters or longer, it'll "bother" you at three occurrences.
2. If the word is shorter than 3 characters, it'll "bother" you at five occurrences.

You can increase the stop-word detection length via a filter:

add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_bother_me_desc_length', function() {
	return 4;
} );

I understand that some languages have longer stop-words: it's a hazy detection at best for now. In any case, use this indicator as a guideline, not as a rule.

Now, we could reconsider this implementation, which would allow for a stop-word detection list. But that's a "maybe later" for now.