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Showing posts with label reading level. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading level. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Oh, It Couldn't Be!


Do you know, that because you are reading this blog it means you are a genius! That's right, a GENIUS!

It says so right here:

blog readability test

You may have seen these page elements scattered around different blogs. All you have to do is click on the last line, then enter your blog's URL in the pop-up form. In seconds you get the reply with code to copy and paste into your own blog somewhere.

Besides my blog, I also have a web site made up of several blog templates that I have stitched together with links to create one whole made up of several parts. Just for the fun of it, I fed all URLs into this gadget to see what reading level it would rank them. All total I have fourteen (14) templates. Two are practice templates (one the old Classic Version of Blogger.com, the other is the New Version). I did not let them play, they are a hodgepodge of this and that. This blog was already ranked, so that left eleven URLs that I fed through the hungry looking widget. Here are the results.

The main section of my web site was ranked:
blog readability test

Tam at Land of the Lost Surprise was unsure how to feel when her's was rated with a High School reading level. I told her to be pleased, because my web site's reading level was rated Elementary School level! But, I have to remember that it is dedicated to the child in each of us, so I suppose that really came through.

The Butterfly section and Critter Crossings were both rated:
blog readability test


Two sections: Smoke In the Night and Garden Tour were rated:
blog readability test


UTOPIA (mystery plants) was rated:
blog readability test


A Clowder of Cats, Floramore, and the Journaling section, as well as, two extra supplementary ones were all rated:
blog readability test

Believe me, I am no genius, so why does it rate my blog as such?

The only thing I can think of is the vocabulary. While my own vocabulary is certainly average, remember, there are all those Latin scientific plant names strewn throughout the posts. I guess when the crawler hit those, it bounced the rate up a few notches.

I think it is time to quit playing now, and head for bed.
See you in the pages!