Readability Checker
Website Readability Checker
With EXPERTE.com's readability checker you can quickly find out how clear articles and blocks of text on your website are. Our checker automatically crawls your website and generates a readability score for each article, letting you know which target groups it's best suited for.
Our automatic readability checker works like this:
Crawls your website
Once you've input your site's URL, our crawler will follow all links on the page in order to identify any subpages.Identify articles and longer blocks of text
To gauge readability, we isolate the article or text on each subpage. Navigation and other irrelevant elements are ignored.Calculate the readability score
We use the Flesch reading ease score, a recognized method for ascertaining the readability of a text. The average sentence length as well as the average number of syllables per word are determined, with both then used to calculate the Flesch score based on the formula: 206.835 - 1.015 * x - 84.6 * y, where x is the average sentence length and y is the number of syllables per word.
What Does the Readability Score Mean?
The Flesch reading ease score indicates how readable a portion of text is, ranging from 0 (very difficult to read) to 100 (very easy to read).
Flesch score | Readability | Ideal for |
|---|---|---|
0-30 | Very difficult | Academics |
30-50 | Difficult to read | College graduates |
50-60 | Somewhat difficult | Those possessing a high school education |
60-70 | Normal | Students reading at the level of a 13-15 year old |
70-80 | Fairly easy to read | |
80-90 | Easy to read | |
90-100 | Very easy to read | Students reading at the level of an 11 year old |
FAQs
Our crawler attempts to find as many subpages on your website as possible within 3 minutes. If performing a manual evaluation, up to 500 URLs can be examined.
To provide a readability score, an article or block of text must contain at least 100 words. Should a page contain fewer than 100 words, it won't be included in the results our checker provides.
The readability score shows which groups of people your text is best suited for. If your target group is primarily academics, an article with a lower readability score will be more appropriate. On the other hand, should your target audience be the general public, that same article would be too difficult for the majority of them to appreciate.
