How readable is your content? Knowing the answer to that question can affect everything from your content marketing to your search engine ranking.
Content that’s too simple may lack the depth of information that readers are often looking for.
At the same time, content that’s too advanced will only confuse and frustrate site visitors.
So how do you strike the right balance? That’s what a readability analyzer is designed to do.
Conveniently check the readability of your content with the Originality.ai Readability Checker.
Readability analyzers are designed to check your content according to one or more readability formulas.
There are a variety of formulas created by readability experts, one of the most popular is the Flesch-Kincaid.
It’s often referenced in educational circles when it comes to choosing the right reading materials for students according to their grade level.
However, readability isn’t just important in an educational context, monitoring readability in marketing is an important way to communicate with your audience.
The average American reading level is about the 6th grade.
That’s not to say that you should immediately tailor your content to this age range. You might be writing tech support manuals for data scientists, in which case, tuning complex information down several grade levels wouldn’t make much sense.
That’s why it’s important to keep readability in mind and consider your target audience.
For instance, in our Readability Study, we found that the best readability score to aim for to rank in Google was a grade 12 reading level.
Fortunately, readability checkers like Datayze can help.
Datayze is an online readability analyzer.
You simply paste in or upload your content, and Datayze checks it according to a number of expert readability formulas, including:
After the analysis is complete, Datayze provides you with details on overall readability and paragraph readability including statistics about your document, such as the number of words per sentence and the number of characters per word.
The platform lets you paste in the text directly or upload a file to have it analyzed.
You can also optionally save the text you’ve pasted in. There does not appear to be a limit to the number of documents you can scan for readability.
We put Datayze to the test by checking the readability of this article. Here are the results:
If you hover over each of the (?) symbols beside your scores, it gives you an overall idea of what that number means.
For example, in checking the readability of this article, it understandably scored almost 50 on the Flesch reading scale. Given that the piece is talking about readability analyzers, it makes sense that it would read as much more technical.
As one of the most thorough and in-depth readability checkers, Originality.ai is an excellent alternative to Datayze.
The Originality.ai Readability Checker offers several more readability formulas:
That way you can get an even more complete picture of your content’s readability rather than just relying on a few formulas.
In addition to checking for a text’s readability, Originality.ai also offers tips for color-coded highlights on text to help you find specific sentences that could benefit from further editing.
Additionally, beyond having more readability metrics, Originality.ai also offers you a complete all-in-one experience on a single platform.
Beyond readability, you can also fact-check your content, check it for plagiarism, and check it for AI writing.
Datayze is a simple, handy and fast way to check overall readability using some of the most popular readability formulas.
However, if you want a more complete picture of how readable your content is Originality.ai offers a full suite of publishing tools.
Try the Originality.ai Readability Checker today, to write clear content that resonates with your target audience.
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