Free Readability checker - Readability Test - 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦

Free Readability score tool.

UPDATE: You can also submit text (including basic markup) as input to the readability checker

Use the Readability Checker to automatically check the readability for any given URL or text input. To calculate your score just
submit your input type and the tool will analyse the readability score for your content using the “Flesch reading ease
formula”

What is Readability?

Readability determines how easy it is for a reader to understand the content of a written text. Based on the
complexity, syntax and presentation an algorithm is able to calculate the readability score of a document. This
score gives you an estimate of the minimum years of education / grade level needed to understand a specific
text.

Readability score

Readability analysis

TIP: if you need to analyse the readability for a large number of (public) URLs / (private) Articles, we recommend our automated API solution.

This tool connects to the SEO Review
Tools Readability API and returns these metrics after analysing the content.

Flesch Reading Ease

Readability Score
Grade level

The total number of extracted sentences
The total number of extracted words
The total number of extracted characters
The estimated reading time
The estimated speaking time
Avg. word length calculated in characters
Avg. sentence length calculated in words
Avg. paragraph length calculated in sentences

Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease formula scores

The table below shows you how to interpreted (FRES) score after testing a document with this tool.

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Score	Grade level
100.00-90.00	5th grade	Very easy to read.
90.0–80.0	6th grade	Easy to read.
80.0–70.0	7th grade	Fairly easy to read.
70.0–60.0	8th & 9th grade	Plain English.
60.0–50.0	10th to 12th grade	Fairly difficult to read.
50.0–30.0	College	Difficult to read.
30.0–0.0	College graduate	Very difficult to read.

To find out more about these formulas and the algorithm behind the concepts, please visit Wikipedia.

How does readability affect SEO?

Readability doesn’t directly influence SEO. That being said, Google does use multiple ranking factors related to user
experience like: Click trough rate (CTR), Bounce rate, Time on page and Returning visitors. If your text is just too
hard to understand, you can expect users to leave your page before reading the full content. Hard to read content
has a much bigger chance to result in: Higher bounce rates, Lower CTRs and Visitors not engaging with your content
(sharing it on social, leaving a comment or linking back to your content). All these factors are very likely to have
a negative impact on SEO.

How to Increase your readability Score?

Use simple words.
Write short sentences.
Use headings and subheadings.

Readability formulas give you and great indication on how accessible your content is, but you shouldn’t just focus on
your calculated score. It’s way more important to connect and write with your audience in mind (these are real
people ;-). And depending on your audience and the topics you write about, you should choose the right index and
range to use as an indication when testing a document.

Readability API

Find out more details about the Readability API →

Free Readability checker – Readability Test