KMK: Readability

Thanks to a tip from my pal Amanda over at Life in a Suitcase I decided to try the readability test from, Juicy Studio, on my website. My site is readable for someone in the eighth grade. Maybe its time to break out the thesaurus.

Reading Level Results
Summary
Value
Total sentences
2480
Total words
7026
Average words per Sentence
2.83
Words with 1 Syllable
3670
Words with 2 Syllables
1252
Words with 3 Syllables
786
Words with 4 or more Syllables
1318
Percentage of word with three or more syllables
29.95%
Average Syllables per Word
1.96
Gunning Fog Index
13.11
Flesch Reading Ease
37.75
Flesch-Kincaid Grade
8.70

The result is your Gunning-Fog index, which is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. The lower the number, the more understandable the content will be to your visitors. Results over seventeen are reported as seventeen, where seventeen is considered post-graduate level.

The result is an index number that rates the text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.

The result is the Flesch-Kincaid grade level. Like the Gunning-Fog index, it is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. Negative results are reported as zero, and numbers over twelve are reported as twelve.