Blog Readability

Juicy Studio Has an readability test index that evaluates the readability of websites. I don’t know who verified the algorithms but I like the results given for Francis Peak:

Summary Value
Total sentences: 87
Total words: 732
Average words per Sentence: 8.41
Words with 1 Syllable: 459
Words with 2 Syllables: 168
Words with 3 Syllables: 73
Words with 4 or more Syllables: 32
Percentage of word with three or more syllables: 14.34%
Average Syllables per Word: 1.56
Gunning Fog Index: 9.10
Flesch Reading Ease: 66.31
Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 6.10

The Rosetta Stone:

Typical Fog Index Scores Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader's Digest
8 - 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 - 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up

Thanks to Uncorrelated

Fox News Goofs Too

In a previous post I linked to an item in Uncorrelated about CNN’s use of a photo that miss-represents the area in Alaska Congress is considering opening to oil drilling. I noticed the same photo being used by Foxnews a couple of days ago.