diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-stat.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-stat.js.es6
index 290aae5a979..8931501e3e6 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-stat.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-stat.js.es6
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 export default Ember.Component.extend({
-  classNames: ['user-stat']
+  classNames: ['user-stat'],
+  type: 'number',
+  isNumber: Ember.computed.equal('type', 'number')
 });
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-stat.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-stat.hbs
index d4ec14677c5..19c62e09d9d 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-stat.hbs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-stat.hbs
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 <span class='value'>
-  {{number value}}
+  {{#if isNumber}}
+    {{number value}}
+  {{else}}
+    {{value}}
+  {{/if}}
 </span>
 <span class='label'>
   {{#if icon}}{{d-icon icon}}{{/if}}
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
index d55c4476d26..97c7cf9c4e1 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
         {{user-stat value=model.days_visited label="user.summary.days_visited"}}
       </li>
       <li>
-        {{user-stat value=model.time_read label="user.summary.time_read"}}
+        {{user-stat value=model.time_read label="user.summary.time_read" type="string"}}
       </li>
       <li>
         {{user-stat value=model.posts_read_count label="user.summary.posts_read"}}