How well your reader understand what your wrote?  Effective content must be clear before it can persuade the reader to act accordingly to your objective.

In writing your next post, gauge your post readability using The Flesh-Kincaid Readability Test Plugin.  Wkipedia had profided a short articles on what is The Flesch/Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test.

Why Is It Important?

What important is not the different result but the interpretation of the result.  The Flesh-Kincaid Readability Test Plugin provide this necessary information.  From the plugin, you three most important information will be Fog,  Flesch and Kincaid.

Fog measure measure The Gunning-Fog Index, Flesch measure The Flesch Reading Ease and Kincaid measure The Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level.

How To Interpret The Result

The Readability area can draw attention to possible problems in the general writing style of the document IF your blog post indicate the following symptom:

• the Gunning Fog Index is higher than 10, or
• the Flesch Reading Ease score is greater than 60%, or
• the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score is greater than 5 – 7 (for younger readers), 5 – 9 (general readers) or 7 – 12 (industry or technical readers)

If your post indicate that symptom, you need to look at the document with fresh eyes.

Further reading and additional tools

1. Kerry Redshaw had wrote a good post on Using MS Word Readability Statistics for Web Writing.  You’ll need grammar checking turned on to display readability statistics.
2. Juicy Studio provide an online tool to measure your blog post readability and the interpretation of the result.
3. If you in doubt whether a or an, then you need to look into, The Guardian Style Guide.  While you there don’t forget to download The 1928 Manchester Guardian.
4. Another online tool to measure your blog post readability is Added Bytes.  similar to Juicy Studio but providing additional more statistic. Simply enter the text you wish to check into the box and your scores will be calculated
5. If you have a little bit of money then you can use SiteScore.  SiteScore test your entire website and produce quality report about your website.

Well I might missed some tools that you have been use, please add it in your comment below.

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