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Readability report for
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.5
ARI: 12.7
Coleman-Liau: 12.8
Flesch Index: 60.4
Fog Index: 13.7
Lix: 47.9 = school year 8
SMOG-Grading: 11.9
sentence info:
5274 characters
1088 words, average length 4.85 characters = 1.46 syllables
48 sentences, average length 22.7 words
64% (31) short sentences (at most 18 words)
14% (7) long sentences (at least 33 words)
17 paragraphs, average length 2.8 sentences
2% (1) questions
27% (13) passive sentences
longest sent 183 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 2 wds at sent 37
word usage:
verb types:
to be (14) auxiliary (4)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 3(28) pronouns 6(63) prepositions 11(124)
nominalizations 1(11)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (6) interrogative pronoun (1) article (3)
subordinating conjunction (2) conjunction (0) preposition (3)
explanation of scores...
Web page readability scores delivered:
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readability scores computed since 1 March, 2004.
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