Friday, April 29, 2005

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

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