Comments on: Testing the Readability of Your Blog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sat, 25 May 2013 11:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: strangefruit0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-912392 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:59:32 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-912392 My results were:
Summary Value
Total sentences 379
Total words 1706
Average words per Sentence 4.50
Words with 1 Syllable 900
Words with 2 Syllables 286
Words with 3 Syllables 214
Words with 4 or more Syllables 306
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 30.48%
Average Syllables per Word 1.96
Gunning Fog Index 13.99
Flesch Reading Ease 36.74
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 9.25

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-893138 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:40:40 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-893138 @ JD from Hoeno:

It analyzes only the page you give it, not the overall blog content, as far as I remember. I haven’t checked it lately to see if it has been updated with new features.

So did you learn anything?

]]> By: JD from Hoeno http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-893091 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:11:37 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-893091 A copy of our results:

Readability Results
The following table contains the readability results for my site.

Reading Level Results Summary Value
Total sentences 2144
Total words 8507
Average words per Sentence 3.97
Words with 1 Syllable 5346
Words with 2 Syllables 1988
Words with 3 Syllables 672
Words with 4 or more Syllables 501
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 13.79%
Average Syllables per Word 1.57
Gunning Fog Index 7.10
Flesch Reading Ease 70.12
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.46

I found this very interesting but really don’t know what to make of any of it. I am a little bit skeptical about how they figure the bible, TV guide and Mark Twain have similar readability though. I’ve never been reading a Mark Twain book and thought ”Gaw! This is like reading the bible!”

Does anybody know if they analyze the homepage on a site but not ALL the pages combined?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-889334 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:34:30 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-889334 @ stokem228:

Yes, I’m a teacher of adults. Congratulations on your new blog. And thank your teacher for sharing my blog with you and your fellow students.

]]> By: stokem228 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-889328 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:21:30 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-889328 Aren’t you a teacher? My teacher Mr. Saner, showed us your blog. I just started one, stokem228.wordpress.com Anyway I googled for mine and I got yours.
P.S. liked the part about a rat’s ass.

]]> By: dannyman http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-397709 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:10:24 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-397709 Aye. I’ll second dana’s comment about the Word Statistics Plugin. I actually found this article while Googling for said plugin. ;)

-danny

]]> By: Tapera » readability tests http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-38378 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:36:37 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-38378 [...] Los test de legibilidad (readability test) tienen audiencia, aunque no muy nutrida. Consultando alguna de estás páginas, acá, aquí, acullá, se puede indagar un poco en los algoritmos que tomando como puntos de partida variables sintácticas nos indican el grado de dificultad de un texto. Desde el sitio Juicy Studio se pueden conocer tres indicadores (el Gunning-Fog, el Flesch Reading Ease y el Flesch-Kincaid grade level) para evaluar un determinado sitio web o blog con sólo poner su DNS. Como bien se dice en La bitácora del Tigre -que presenta en ese mismo post el plugin de legibilidad para WordPress)- algunos de esos índices no fueron concebidos para el idioma español, aunque la mayoría insista en aceptar su pertinencia para varios idiomas. Aunque estas fórmulas puedan disparar la imaginación de muchos analistas, en general sus usos son complementados por herramientas contextuales para la producción de sentido: dos textos igual de legibles no serán igual de comprensibles, por muchas razones. Sin embargo, a los fines de la producción de contenido estos indicadores pueden adaptarse a los objetivos deseados. (Aunque tal vez eso no sea un algoritmo sino el uso “oblicuo” de uno.) [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24692 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:31:45 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24692 Andyp: I used it in Firefox, as do a lot of other people. Check your WordPress Theme to see if there is an error there and report it through Feedback so it can get fixed. That will help everyone.

]]> By: Mirkwood http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24667 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:31:17 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24667 A Readability Test

Lorelle points to an interesting website called Juicy Studio, which has a facility for testing the readability of an electronic document. The main outputs of the test are three scores:

Gunning-Fog Index: Years of schooling needed to understand the tex…

]]> By: andyp http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24659 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:59:14 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/testing-the-readability-of-your-blog/#comment-24659 Hmm – the tester page won’t load in Firefox due to a not well-formed XML error. Oh well.

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