Thursday, April 28, 2005

Can You Read What I Write?

Check out the link above and see for yourself whether a particular webpage, or web site is easy to read according to several different scales.

This site is apparently quite easy to read. Like reading a popular novel. Make that a good one.

Summary value for this entire blog:
Total sentences 329
Total words 3,091
Average words per Sentence 9.40
Words with 1 Syllable 1,906
Words with 2 Syllables 754
Words with 3 Syllables 296
Words with 4 or more Syllables 135
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 13.94%
Average Syllables per Word 1.57
Gunning Fog Index 9.34
Flesch Reading Ease 64.77
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 6.56

I'll be working on making this site more difficult to read in the days and weeks to come. I'm disappointed in myself considering that some of my other work, such as this law review article scores much more difficult to read (GF Index of 12.06, FRE of 55.80, and a FKG of 7.78). Expect longer sentences, bigger words, and polysyllabic words (even if I have to make them up). One word responses (Heh, Indeed, etc., are not going to cut it anymore).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh...indeed!

Tom said...

Don't feel that bad. The NYT has a grade level between 6th and 8th grade level.

lawhawk said...

Unfortunately, the Times appears to have been taken over by petulent 2-year olds who are too busy throwing tamper tantrums because they can't impose their will on the public. This is especially prevalent on the editorial page.