How Readable is Your Content

According to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Tests how readable your content is on your website can make or break your readers.

So what exactly does all of this mean?

The Flesch-Kincaid Readability Tests are readability tests designed to indicate how difficult a reading passage is to understand.

One of the tests is known as the "Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease" test. It scores passages on a scale of 0-100. Higher scores indicate material that is easier to read; lower numbers mark harder-to-read passages. The formula for the Reading Ease Test is:

206.835 - (1.015 x avg. words per sentence) - (84.6 x avg. syllables per word)

So how about a few tests:

Open CMS 60.83
Thinkingfaster.com 69.13
Millionaire Minds 70.78
midgard 36.49
documentum 70.34


The result is an index number that rates the text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.

See how your websites fair up and see what you can do to make sure your readers keep coming on back.