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Thursday, May 13, 2004
Readability With Textalyser
How easy is it for others to understand your writing? For a Web site to be accessible it must be easily read by visitors. Textalyser is a tool that helps you to decide if a piece of text or a Web page is easy to read. Enter text or a Web address into Textalyser and it will give you information about sentence length, the number of words used and even the average number of syllables per word. Using both the Fog Index and another measure of readability it will also score the text on how easy or hard it is to read.
One problem I experienced while using Textalyser is that it analyses all text on a Web page, including navigation and menu items. Some HTML code was also included in the analysis of my weblogs. Textalyser did, however, make me more aware of sentence length. The longest and shortest sentences are included in the results (ouch!). I will try to write shorter sentences from now on!
Textalyser will not let you know if your page is well-written. Only you and your readers can judge that. Textalyser will simply give you a few clues.
I read about Textalyser in ResearchBuzz (#282 - May 6, 2004).
One problem I experienced while using Textalyser is that it analyses all text on a Web page, including navigation and menu items. Some HTML code was also included in the analysis of my weblogs. Textalyser did, however, make me more aware of sentence length. The longest and shortest sentences are included in the results (ouch!). I will try to write shorter sentences from now on!
Textalyser will not let you know if your page is well-written. Only you and your readers can judge that. Textalyser will simply give you a few clues.
I read about Textalyser in ResearchBuzz (#282 - May 6, 2004).
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