Phineas Gunning-Fog
Media Orchard calculated the readibility of various blogs, thanks to the Gunning-Fog test, which is an objective test of readibility, as opposed to a subjective assessment of content.
The Gunning-Fog test is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content ... It's all based on the number of words per sentence, number of syllables per word and the percentage of words with three or more syllables, among other things.
Here are your benchmarks of comparison:
| Fog Index | Resources |
|---|---|
| 6 | TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain, Comic Books |
| 8 | Reader's Digest |
| 8 - 10 | Most popular novels |
| 10 | Time, Newsweek |
| 11 | Wall Street Journal |
| 14 | The Times, The Guardian |
| 15 - 20 | Academic papers |
| Over 20 | Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them. |
| Over 30 | The government is covering something up |
Here are a few blog results courtesy of Media Orchard and also the results for Jaffe Juice:
Thoughts From Ronn Torossian 12.47
Holmes Report Blog 12.13
paidContent.org 11.74
Naked Conversations 10.31
Neville Hobson 10.03
Mediaweek 9.79
Editor and Publisher 9.77
a shel of my former self 9.57
adfreak 9.47
Micro Persuasion 9.24
Broadcasting and Cable 8.70
Media Orchard 8.44
Random Culture 8.35
hyku 8.34
Adrants 8.29
Seth Godin's Blog 8.26
Marketing Begins At Home 8.06
The Media Drop 7.70
gapingvoid 6.98
Make the Logo Bigger 6.21
| Summary for Jaffe Juice | Value |
|---|---|
| Total sentences | 367 |
| Total words | 2461 |
| Average words per Sentence | 6.71 |
| Words with 1 Syllable | 1582 |
| Words with 2 Syllables | 525 |
| Words with 3 Syllables | 203 |
| Words with 4 or more Syllables | 151 |
| Percentage of word with three or more syllables | 14.38% |
| Average Syllables per Word | 1.56 |
| Gunning Fog Index | 8.44 |
| Flesch Reading Ease | 67.85 |
| Flesch-Kincaid Grade | 5.46 |
I'm happy with the results. I think.
Via StudentPR
