Readability Test

[DaveDragon]

RilySi Readability Test (http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2007/12/blog-reading-level-rilysi.html)

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/genius.jpg (http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx)
I came across this Blog Readability test over on criticsrant.com (http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx) and thought I would give it a try on this blog.

The URL for this blog scores GENIUS Level on readability, you folks are some smart individuals as it turns out! LOL.

Give it a try on your blog or home page.

Here are some other sites and their scores:
http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/elementary_school.jpg
BBC.COM (http://BBC.COM)
www.advrider.com (http://www.advrider.com)





http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/junior_high.jpg
PBS.ORG (http://PBS.ORG)
CNN.COM (http://CNN.COM)
MSNBC.COM (http://MSNBC.COM)
REDDIT.COM (http://REDDIT.COM)
cbsnews.com (http://cbsnews.com)
nbcnews.com (http://nbcnews.com)
www.nytimes.com/ (http://www.nytimes.com/)
www.pbs.org (http://www.pbs.org)
www.reuters.com/ (http://www.reuters.com/)





http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/high_school.jpg
FoxNews.com (http://FoxNews.com)
www.bmwlt.com (http://www.bmwlt.com)
www.whitehouse.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)
www.usatoday.com/ (http://www.usatoday.com/)
www.itar-tass.com/eng/ (http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/)



http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/undergrad.jpg
Whatreallyhappened.com (http://Whatreallyhappened.com)
www.washingtonpost.com/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
english.aljazeera.net (http://english.aljazeera.net)



http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/postgrad.jpg
news.bbc.co.uk/ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/)




http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/genius.jpg
davedragon.rilysi.com (http://davedragon.rilysi.com)
abcnews.com (http://abcnews.com)
www.forbes.com/ (http://www.forbes.com/)
news.google.com (http://news.google.com)


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[hoog62]

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/elementary_school.jpg

www.advrider.com (http://www.advrider.com/)





Wow, didn't see that coming....

[DaveDragon]

Appropriate don't you think? http://www.bmwlt.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif

[cfell]

Let's see.. is that based upon editorial or overall content? You know, with this writers' strike, this may improve things...... more editors writing their own copy????

[hoog62]

I'll run it on Corvette Off Topic later, does it have a Pre K rating? ;)

[DaveDragon]

I ran it against all of the links I posted.
I ran it using full links to specific pages and got the same results on my blog.

[brianbeemer]

Neat idea. Seems to use a similar algorithm to Microsoft's readability statistics in Word - I get the same results with both (one page = post grad, one page = genius). That algorithm works on a combination of vocabulary and grammar, I believe...