What does it all mean?

Ah, the blog readability test.
What level of education is required to read a blog?
This will handily give you a rating for any blog or website you stick in there.

Here's mine


Okay so I stole that from Lance, but the monkey is so darn cute.

It actually rates from elementary school to postgrad college level

Okay, so there is a genius level too, but I don't know anyone who went to to genius school, do you?
At least a third of the blogs I follow come up genius though, and I can read them just fine. Except maybe Charlie's.

The oddest websites come up genius rated: google and msn, but not yahoo (jr high).
There is no information about this test, so my theory is that genius is for when the computer can't figure out what to do with you.

The following site states that readability tests evaluate navigation and other content besides posts, which can skew the results. (quite drastically, in my opinion)

"Juicy Studio Readability Test"

Here's my results from this site (with the needed explanations.)

Gunning Fog Index
16.22
(how many years of school needed, so postcollege here)
Flesch Reading Ease
17.95
(the lower the number, the harder to understand)
Flesch-Kincaid Grade
12.00
(this one tops out at 12)

According to this site, readability tests analyze length of words and sentences to come up with these number, not content at all.
So how readable is your content? Did you want to make it something on a level with an irs or dod document? If not genius level is not something to be proud of.

So if you want to believe a simple mathematical calculation, counting in navigation, my blog is difficult to read, unless you are a monkey.....