Blog Readability Levels
posted by Daniel Solove
This nifty site rates the level of education necessary to understand your blog. I plugged in various blog URLs as well as some URLs of mainstream media sites. Here are the results:
GENIUS
* Legal Theory
* Balkinization
* Becker-Posner
* TaxProf
COLLEGE (POSTGRAD)
* Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
COLLEGE (UNDERGRAD)
* Concurring Opinions
* Conglomerate
* PrawfsBlawg
* Dorf on Law
* How Appealing
HIGH SCHOOL
* Washington Post
* Slate
* Time
* Wall St. Journal
JUNIOR HIGH
* Volokh Conspiracy
* Above the Law
* Althouse
* Instapundit
* CNN
* New York Times
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
* Drudge Report
November 10, 2007 at 1:22 am
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Responses (4)
John Armstrong - November 10, 2007 at 9:15 am
I’m looking around and I can’t find anything about what that label is supposed to mean.
Jason - November 10, 2007 at 3:52 pm
http://www.readability.info/info.shtml
That gives an overview of some possible metrics.
Jim Maule - November 12, 2007 at 9:53 am
Strange, I just entered my blog’s URL (MauledAgain) and got “college” as the result. Maybe this morning’s post changed things?
Martin B. Tittle - November 12, 2007 at 5:37 pm
The web site that Jason suggested is very interesting. URLs entered into the box at the bottom of that web page get a readability report that includes scores generated by seven readability formulae.
I plugged in my own web site, http://www.martintittle.com, which got a “High School” ranking on the Blog Readability Test, and got the following scores:
Kincaid: 10.8
ARI: 11.9
Coleman-Liau: 12.2
Flesch Index: 56.9
Fog Index: 13.9
Lix: 47.9 = school year 8
SMOG-Grading: 12.2
According to the info page on the site, the Flesch Index uses a 1-100 scale, with “standard English documents” averaging 60-70. SMOG-Grading and Fog Index scores are school grades.
Here are the results for Linda Beale’s ataxingmatter blog:
Blog Readability Test: Genius
readability.info scores:
Kincaid: 12.3
ARI: 14.1
Coleman-Liau: 13.2
Flesch Index: 51.3
Fog Index: 15.8
Lix: 51.6 = school year 10
SMOG-Grading: 13.4
The readability.info scores for Jim Maule’s mauledagain blog are:
Kincaid: 9.9
ARI: 11.1
Coleman-Liau: 11.6
Flesch Index: 62.0
Fog Index: 12.8
Lix: 44.7 = school year 8
SMOG-Grading: 11.3
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