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From: Joel Nation <joel...@cyberone.com.au>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon 22 Sep 2008 10:21
Subject: Readability of html
The problem with these readability scores is that they don't take into
consideration the way html works. For instance you very rarely put a full stop in a heading tag (eg: <h1>Hello.</h1>) but this will affect most of the scores as that word will now be added to the next sentence and make it longer then it actually is. And with lots of headings you actually making the page more readable. Ditto for lists as (atleast at my work) we don't generally put a full stop after a list item. Running the scores on one of our pages (http://www.accc.gov.au/content/ index.phtml/itemId/815360) I initially get a Flesch Kincaid Grade Level of 24.9 (if I run it over the entire page) and 18.2 if I strip the html tags out. But I get a much better score of 8.3 if I add full stops after the correct tags before stripping the tags out. Of course running it over just the content I start with a reading level of 11, but I still end up with the 8.3 I add the full stops. I would suggest that the code should be modified to take this into consideration. It's only a few lines of extra code and I'm happy to check in my changes to a branch if possible. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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