Measure How Readable Your Text Is!

April 20, 2007 on 9:36 pm | In Web Design |

Usability is everything (almost) when it comes to web design. You have a good layout and good navigation, but what if your content is crap? Now you can actually measure that crap!

Go to textalyser.net and type in the url of your crap, er, the url of the content for which you want to check readability.

Out comes a table listing average syllables per word, sentence count, average sentence length, maximum sentence length, complexity factor (Lexical Density) and Readability (Gunning-Fog Index).

Now all you have to do is tweak the content until the Readability figure gets within limits (the limits are listed on the textalyser home page) and voila!, it’s easy to read!

By the way, this article got a 9.8 for Gunning-Fox Readability, where 6 is easy and 20 is hard, so if you don’t understand this article, there’s something wrong with YOU