Yesterday I found an online tool called the Blog Readability Test from a post on Evil Avatar that is supposed to test “what reading level is required to understand your blog”. I assume it applies some kind of reading-level algorithm after searching the front page of whatever website you type in; Mental Floss [via Game|Life] thinks it’s likely an implementation of the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula. I guess the results could be interpreted as an indicator of whether you should simplify or tune up your writing depending on if you are targeting a particular audience and who that audience is. The below results were obtaining by entering the main site addresses so readability results will very likely vary among individual full-length posts.
WARNING: This is not meant to be criticism of any particular blogger(s), but rather just as a interesting post about artificial classifications of writing. So don’t flame me, blame the formula!
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