How Smart is Your Blog?

Not sure what this says about me:

blog readability test

Okay, to be honest, The Blog Readability Test isn’t so much about intelligence as it is about, well, readability. So, I am plenty smart, I assure you. It’s just my blog that’s not. Despite my advanced years, apparently it’s yet to graduate! :::sob::: Must be Elle’s influence.

How smart is your blog?

By Cindy

I'm irritated because my posts won't publish.

16 comments

  2. Does it ever give a score higher than Junior High School? I tried to test it on the law blog on the Wall Street Journal website and it crashed. Hmm. I guess it can’t read above jr. high level itself.

  3. LOL, Viv. I took it from a blog that has a “Genius” level rating, but I can no longer remember which blog it was. I was doing some surfing and saw the graphic on a site, then clicked through.

    Now, for a writer’s purposes, especially a commercial fiction writer’s, the best readability score is supposed to be low. I put my website URL as a whole through the same test, and that resulted in a “Elementary School” rating. 🙂 If you put a fiction manuscript through a Word readability rating, grade 5 is not out of the question and yet you still have a great book that you’re reading. So a lower readability score doesn’t necessarily reflect the quality of the work, I tell myself. 😉

  6. *G* Neat test, Cindy. I put it on my website and it gave me a Jr. High rating. Hey, I’m fine with that, greater reader ease.

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  8. I would be afraid to check mine. Someone reviewed books by 10 bestsellers and their readability level was fourth grade. So your junior high school level might be too high. 😉

  9. Edie, are you insinuating that I’m too smart to be a successful commercial fiction author? THAT’S my problem? 😉

    I assure you, I am plenty not smart enough. Or at least my sentences are….not (I think). I usually score about grade 5 level in my fiction when I bother to turn on the Word stats. I must use too many long and rambling “complex” sentences on my blog.

    Don’t be afraid to check your blog. Be even less afraid to report back here and allow me to tease you. I’ll be gentle, promise.

  10. Cindy, yes, you are too smart. That’s been your problem all along. You must dumb down. Fifth grade level is too intelligent. LOL

    You must have known I couldn’t refuse a dare. My blog is elementary school reading level. That must mean I’m bound for bestsellerdom.

  11. Damn you, Edie Ramer, damn you!! You are headed for bestsellerdom whilst I (cool word, that whilst, huh?) must sit here sobbing and watch.

  14. Hi Lexi, well, of COURSE Avery I knew already knew you were smarter than either of us (sorry, Avery, it just had to be said). 🙂

  15. Mine came out as high school, but that may only be because I was quoting some scientific names of drugs in my last post, thanks to my chocolate addiction… 🙂

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