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. 2022 Dec 11;14(2):185–188. doi: 10.1007/s12687-022-00626-8

Table 2.

Mean readability a for all sites, top 10 hits, and by URL extension (.com vs. other); p-values for t-tests also included

Readability test Mean Standard deviation Top 10 .com Other p-value
FKGL 9.80 2.84 8.86 10.53 9.43 0.034
GFI 9.77 3.90 9.22 10.35 9.47 0.144
CLI 11.39 3.91 11.09 11.95 11.11 0.154
SMOG 11.00 2.65 10.64 11.29 10.85 0.213
FRE 42.66 18.41 48.81 37.05 45.55 0.014

a FRE, Flesch Reading Ease; FKGL, Flesch Kincaid Grade Level; GFI, Gunning Fog Index; CLI, Coleman-Liau Index; SMOG, Simple Measure of Gobbledygook