My Blog Is Readable!

I found this cool site called the Juicy Studio and it has a "readability test" for blogs. You can put in your blog's URL and wa! la! it comes back with "stuff" like this:

Total sentences
580

Total words
6480

Average words per Sentence
11.17

Words with 1 Syllable
4717

Words with 2 Syllables
1213

Words with 3 Syllables
421

Words with 4 or more Syllables
129

Percentage of word with three or more syllables
8.49%

Average Syllables per Word
1.38

Now then, this is where it gets tricky. .....

"Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words. Whilst they're rough guides, they can give a useful indication as to whether you've pitched your content at the right level for your intended audience".

Gunning Fog Index
7.86

"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".

Flesch Reading Ease
79.01

"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".

Flesch-Kincaid Grade
5.01

"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".

Well there you have it! My blog is easy to read. Maybe it's too easy to read, but I like it or I wouldn't write it! I sure hope you like it too.