Readability
2007-11-29 17:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexibeasti just gave the URL of my LJ to JuicyStudio's readability tester. My results:
Explanations:
| Summary | Value |
|---|---|
| Total sentences | 587 |
| Total words | 10802 |
| Average words per Sentence | 18.40 |
| Words with 1 Syllable | 6822 |
| Words with 2 Syllables | 2162 |
| Words with 3 Syllables | 1141 |
| Words with 4 or more Syllables | 677 |
| Percentage of word with three or more syllables | 16.83% |
| Average Syllables per Word | 1.60 |
| Gunning Fog Index | 14.09 |
| Flesch Reading Ease | 52.85 |
| Flesch-Kincaid Grade | 10.46 |
Explanations:
[The] Gunning-Fog index . . . 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 Flesch Reading Ease scale] 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.
[T]he Flesch-Kincaid grade level . . . 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.
