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Will measure the text in a tag like this:
<div id="content">this text will be measured</div>
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- Inline tags are ignored.
- Use the bookmarklet for faster checking of pages!
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Reading Text ...Reading Ease
A higher score indicates easier readability; scores usually range between 0 and 100.
| Readability Formula | Score |
|---|---|
| Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease | - |
Grade Levels
A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. A score of around 10-12 is roughly the reading level on completion of high school. Text to be read by the general public should aim for a grade level of around 8.
| Readability Formula | Grade |
|---|---|
| Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level | - |
| Gunning-Fog Score | - |
| Coleman-Liau Index | - |
| SMOG Index | - |
| Automated Readability Index | - |
| Average Grade Level | - |
Text Statistics
| Character Count | - |
| Syllable Count | - |
| Word Count | - |
| Sentence Count | - |
| Characters per Word | - |
| Syllables per Word | - |
| Words per Sentence | - |
Bookmarklet
Drag this button to your toolbar to quickly run a test on any webpage!
Open Source
The code that calculates the scores displayed here has been released as an Open Source project: Text Statistics.
Supported Languages
Several readability algorithms use syllable counting to determine their scores. The current syllable counter used here will only work with English text, so scores for other languages may be inaccurate.
The Coleman-Liau and Automated Readability Indexes do not use syllable counting, so should produce a reasonably accurate score in most European languages.