How to improve readability scores

Measure, monitor and manage readability

How to improve readability — Can you read me now? What’s the right reading grade level score for your target audience to read and understand? Do you have too many long words? Complex words? Long sentences? Write readable content that’s easy to understand using the Gunning Fog score, Flesch Kincaid grade level and other free readability tools. Image by leungchopan

Why improve readability
	Why is readability important to your readers? Readable messages help everyone Thumbs up: Nobody wants it to be harder. Even highly literate, highly educated audiences perform better with more readable copy.

	How do you define readability? Measure, monitor and manage your message’s reading ease Readability measures how easy your message is to read. That measurement is based on factors like sentence and word length.

How to improve readability
	Measure reading levels with readability indexes How to calculate readability with the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid and Gunning Fog tests Hit the right target What readability scores to aim for on three top readability tests.

	Measure readability with these readability tools Get a free readability score with these readability apps How does your readability measure up? Measure, monitor and manage readability with these readability tools.

	Benchmark your message against New York Times’ readability How does your readability measure up against The Wall Street Journal, the BBC & more? How does your readability measure up? Benchmark readability against The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC & more.

	How to improve clarity in writing 5 steps to simplifying your message All clear: Give your message context, structure it logically, remove ambiguity and more.

	What is clarity in writing Stop these institutional mistakes for readability Failure to communicate: Want to get the message across? Slay these clarity killers to improve readability.

	Measure, manage & report readability 4 more ways to use reading ease Does your writing measure up? Learn how you can use readability measures to produce readable content.

More on how to measure readability
	Resources on how to measure readability Websites, books & tools Dig into classic readability research to learn how to make today’s messages more readable.

	Quotes on how to measure readability What writers & others say “Write for the expert, but write so the non-expert can understand.” — Bernard Kilgore, celebrated Wall Street Journal editor

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