Content Readability Test

Readability scores are useful when they point you towards something worth reviewing. They are much less useful when they become a target in their own right.

This tool gives you the Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid grade level for English prose. It also shows the measures behind the writing: word and character counts, sentence and paragraph counts, average sentence length, average word length, estimated reading time and the most repeated content words.

You can paste text directly or enter one public page URL.

How to use the readability scores

Flesch Reading Ease runs from 0 to 100. Higher scores generally indicate easier English prose. Flesch-Kincaid grade level expresses sentence and word complexity as an approximate U.S. school grade level.

Neither number tells you whether the writing is accurate, original, useful or appropriate for the reader. Technical writing often scores as more difficult because the subject requires specialist vocabulary. A low score can therefore be a useful editing prompt without being evidence that the content is poor.

Sentence length deserves context too

Long sentences are not automatically bad. A sentence becomes difficult when it carries too many ideas, hides the main point or forces the reader to hold several clauses in memory at once.

The tool flags a high average sentence length so you can review the passages that may need attention. It does not tell you to shorten every sentence. Good writing benefits from variation.

What the repeated-word table shows

The frequency table removes a small set of common function words and shows the most repeated content words in the sample. This can reveal accidental repetition, overused terminology or a topic that dominates the text more than you expected.

It is not a keyword-density target. Search content should not be edited to reach a fixed percentage for a phrase. Use repetition data to review clarity and language, not to force keywords into copy.

URL analysis and pasted text

Pasted text gives the cleanest reading because the tool analyses exactly what you provide. URL mode fetches the returned HTML and tries to analyse the first article element, then the main element, then the page body as a fallback.

Some websites include navigation, related links or other interface text inside those containers. If the URL result does not represent the article accurately, paste the main text instead.

The URL fetch is limited to one public HTTP or HTTPS page. The plugin uses WordPress safe HTTP handling and caps the downloaded response size.